DOES SEXUAL OBJECTIFICATION ENTAIL INSTITUTIONAL POWER IMBALANCES IN ORGANIZATIONS?

• Author: Rumrill, Jessica
• Position: Report

1. Introduction

   MeToo may add to current knowledge and grasp on proliferation of imbalances (Brown, 2016; Ferguson, 2016; Machan, 2017a, b, c; Nica and Taylor, 2017; Nica, 2017; Peters, 2016; Poliak, Semanova, and Poliakova, 2015; Popescu Ljungholm, 2017; Profiroiu and Nastaca, 2016; Reimann, Pausch, and Diewald, 2017) within certain sectors. (Johansson, Johansson, and Andersson, 2018) Prevalent sexual harassment necessitates a standard reactive to the impasse of employees who perform their jobs under unbearable conditions. (Davis, 2018) An organization may undergo harm when sexual conduct entailing an institutional power discrepancy undermines personnel productivity and attitude. (Leong, 2019)

2. Literature Review

   MeToo's large-scale endorsement is plausibly caused by its far-reaching and inclusive charm, and its capacity to go beyond hierarchy. The movement is essentially focused on the intersection of sex and authority and has formulated its undertakings in relation to justice. (Gill and Orgad, 2018) The #MeToo campaign, while bringing to light the scale of the issue, elucidates that suppressing sufferers' speech indicates that sexual aggression will never firmly be put into order. Non-disclosure agreements in the event of sexual harassment and assault should be massively legalized both by employing content-neutral investigations on the implementation of such nefarious contracts and via legislative procedures that allege the perpetrators and their lawyers. (Prasad, 2018) The rationales of carceral feminism infer universal categories of man/woman and abuser/sufferer, and imagine the state as an unbiased conciliator authorized to deliver fair treatment. (Noel Mack and McCann, 2018)

3. Methodology

   Using and replicating data from Barna, Bucknell Institute for Public Policy, GEH, Raliance, Statista, Stop Street Harassment, and YouGov, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding the prevalence of sexual harassment and assault in the United States, share of U.S. adults who have been victims of sexual harassment (by gender), and the percentage who think that, in the future, the #MeToo movement will lead men to be less likely to mentor women at their workplace.

4. Results and Discussion

   Feminism as a normalizing realm of reparation and hope is tremendously alive in current memory. The recent #MeToo movement has substantiated how knowledge and authority are intricately interwoven in unbelievable manners. (Lukose, 2018) In a pre-#MeToo framework, executives were inclined to think that their employer would be hesitant to dismiss them, and would not reveal their firing publicly, as it would affect the employer's reputation decisively, and also supposed that they might be hard to substitute, and that the deficit of returns...