Researchers analyzed survey data from 805 companies collected between 1971 and 2002 as well as data on workforce composition at those companies from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and found that sexual harassment training for employees and sexual harassment grievance procedures backfired and correlated with a decrease in women managers, whereas training in which managers typically learn to be victims' allies correlated with an increase in women managers; the findings also suggest that sexual harassment programs work relatively better in workplaces with more women managers, according to the authors.
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Article #18-18477: "The promise and peril of sexual harassment programs," by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev.
MEDIA CONTACT: Frank Dobbin, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; tel: 617-496-9091, email: frank_dobbin@harvard.edu; Alexandra Kalev, Tel Aviv University, ISRAEL; tel: +972-54-2477382; email: akalev@post.tau.ac.il
Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences