IS SEXUAL HARASSMENT AN ENDEMIC SOCIAL ISSUE?

• Author: Weathington, Bradley
• Position: Report

1. Introduction

   The #MeToo movement aimed to uncover the incidence of sexual harassment and aggression in public realms by persuading sufferers to communicate their ordeals on social media. (Kunst et al., 2018) The MeToo campaign has made the expenses of feeble castigation more relevant for employers. The prolonged offense of a well-known tormentor becomes predictable, thus making the employer's passivity less legitimate. Employers have now begun taking a more castigatory strategy with well-known tormentors, comprising publicly dismissing top executives and revealing the grounds for the firing. In a setting where dismissal constitutes a standard reaction to documented acts of persecution, apparent kinds of punishment seem less acceptable. (Tippett, 2018)

2. Literature Review

   The planetary #MeToo campaign has brought restored interest to the topic of workplace sexual harassment--a type of gender-based aggression at work that is an institutional, felonious, and ethical matter. (O'Neil et al., 2018) Toxic masculinity generates sex-based harassment, particularly persecution carried out by groups of men--a conduct that does not concern a sentimental interest in the target, but a tactic of signifying a man's inclusion in the group, and of stigmatizing the injured party. Harassment regulates the masculinity of workplace to confirm its prominence in the pecking order of masculine over feminine. (McGinley, 2018) Since the hashtag disclosures, intolerant social forces have cut down women's shared past histories of sexual harassment and wide-ranging gender bias to isolated conflicts (e.g. lawsuits), consequently dividing and disuniting sufferers. While hashtag exposures illustrated a daring moment, simple revealing of the issue is failing in opposing the male-dominated society (Alvarez Rodriguez, 2017; Balcerzak et al., 2018; Machan, 2016; Mihaila, 2017; Moghtader, 2017; Popescu, 2017; Popescu Ljungholm, 2017a, b; Reimann, Pausch, and Diewald, 2017), which discredit and dominate injured parties' positions. (Kim, 2018)

3. Methodology

   Building my argument by drawing on data collected from Bucknell Institute for Public Policy, GEH, Pew Research Center, Raliance, Statista, Stop Street Harassment, and YouGov, I performed analyses and made estimates regarding persons whom women reported as perpetrators of sexual harassment and assault, percentage of employed women in a workplace with more women than men/more men than women saying that sexual harassment is a problem in their industry/workplace and that they have...