August 05, 2013 Monday
Research Finding .
Women Overestimate Their Willingness to Confront Harassment
Experiment :
In experiment, 83% of women said they would confront a job interviewer who asked such sexually harassing questions as "Do you have a boyfriend?"
And the more confrontation they predicted for themselves, the greater their contempt for women who didn't protest !
Their Claims Debunked :
Yet past research shows that most female candidates who face such harassment questions DID NOTHING to protest !
Reason ?
People underestimate the COSTS of confrontation, such as not getting the job they want / need , if they don't experience the harassment themselves.
Research Courtesy : a team led by Kristina A. Diekmann of the University of Utah.
SOURCE: Double Victimization in the Workplace: Why Observers Condemn Passive Victims of Sexual Harassment
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