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Blog Overview Blogger Profiles Event Calendar You can also visit our other sites: EmployeeWellness.ca WellnessFair.ca Workplace Wellness Info on NaturalHealthcare.ca	\| Share: \| more Redefining Sexual Harassment: it is not simply unwanted sexual advances Gender harassment with no sexual advances also detrimental to women's physical and emotional health HR professionals should take note: gender harassment that does not involve overt sexual advances is equally detrimental to the workplace environment and has health and wellbeing repercussions for the female staff experiencing it. Sexual harassment runs the gamut from simply targeting women because they are female with sexist - but not sexual - commentary, right up to physical violence. From the current issue of Law and Human Behavior: The generally accepted view of sexual harassment sees unwanted sexual attention as an essential component. What Leskinen’s work shows is that nine out of ten harassed women in her sample had experienced gender harassment primarily in the absence of sexual advances in the workplace. And yet, within the current legal conception of sexual harassment, gender harassment involving no sexual advances routinely gets neglected by the law. Leskinen, Cortina, and Kabat analyzed survey data from women working in two male-dominated environments: the US military (9,725 women) and federal legal practice (1,425 women). Their analyses revealed five typical profiles of harassment: low victimization (sexist behavior); gender harassment (sexist and crude harassment); gender harassment with unwanted sexual attention; moderate victimization (moderate levels of all types of harassment); high victimization (frequent harassment). The large majority (90 percent) of harassment victims fell into one of the first two groups, which describe virtually no unwanted sexual advances, yet are the most common manifestations of sex-based harassment. This is a tiny portion of the full piece. Read the full article at the link. Source (please note, some articles are only available for a limited time.) 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