Apparently female managers are 137 percent more likely to be sexually harassed than their male counterparts:
Even Heather McLaughlin, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota and the primary investigator on the study, was surprised by the findings.
“It’s sort of a paradox,” she says. “You would expect that having that status and power over other employees would protect you from that behavior.”
Turns out it doesn’t, and McLaughlin’s conclusion is that “because of gender norms, people are still not accepting women in power positions.”
August 25th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
I’m not clear- were they being harassed by their subordinates or their bosses?
August 26th, 2009 at 6:38 am
You’re back! You’re back!
I was recently contemplating the return of WWN. Time to clear out the old links and start collecting again.
August 26th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Welcome back missy.
August 26th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Subordinates, apparently.
August 26th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Welcome back!!