HAS THE LAW BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL IN CURTAILING SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN ORGANIZATIONS?

• Author: Ansley, Donna
• Position: Report

1. Introduction

   The growing prominence of #MeToo in the current moment highlights the adjusted commitment, from an interest in sexual objectification to a more castigatory and political agenda concerned with how gender and power converge, and the repercussions of this translocation. (Gill and Orgad, 2018) An amazing amount of women experience humiliation, sarcasm, and molestation at work. Discouraged to denounce abusive behavior, such employees fear shame, castigation, revenge, and censure. (Davis, 2018) Shared feminist campaigns which go beyond separate exposures signify a paramount prolog to more far-reaching structural change. (Kim, 2018)

2. Literature Review

   The #MeToo campaign may define how employers react to repetitious accusations, recommending them to consider such allegations determinedly, to initiate investigations, and to preserve the claims recorded, even when the outcomes of any factfinding are groundless. (White, 2018) Frequently situations of aggression against women are not regarded as true, enabling sexual assault to prevail. (PettyJohn et al., 2018) If states approve clearer legislation, employers tend to encompass carve-outs to their confidentiality contract and social media policies. Lacking state legislation, federal protections importantly establish a tacit exception to such agreements and guidelines. As intellectual property may be decisive to a corporation's business, it does not endanger the implementation of its confidentiality stipulation, or the contract wholly. Carve-outs constitute a cautious procedure to validate the coherence of confidentiality contracts. (Tippett, 2018) Feminist political science is instrumental in grasp of power (Arvidson, 2017; Friedman and Gerstein, 2017; Hayes and Jeffries, 2016; Kmecova, 2018; Mihaila, 2017; Nica, 2017a, b; Popescu, 2017; Weede, 2016; White et al., 2016), particularly through the notion of empowerment, providing individuals with the conceptual tools to react to events such as feminist campaigns and other proposals of disregarded communities aiming to contest imbalance and maltreatment. Thus informal politics is brought into the formal realm and the boundaries of an established, hierarchical strategy to power and politics are displayed, showing how intersectionality and authority are connected. (Welden, 2018)

3. Methodology

   Building my argument by drawing on data collected from Bucknell Institute for Public Policy, Pew Research Center, PRRI, SourceMedia Research, and YouGov, I performed analyses and made estimates regarding percentage who would vote for candidates accused of sexual harassment by political affiliation and gender, things that need to change to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace, percentage of those in science, technology, engineering and math jobs who say that they have ever experienced gender discrimination at work, their gender has made it harder to succeed at work, and sexual harassment is a problem in their workplace, percentage saying the increased focus on sexual harassment and assault has made it harder/not much difference/easier for men to know how to...