Sexual Harassment in Britain

Abstract

Further research on sexual harassment at work is necessary to persuade management to implement policies and grievance procedures covering this area in the workplace. Superior/subordinate harassment is the most serious problem for women in “feminine” occupations, the real problem being posed by middle‐class men with higher occupational status. Co‐worker harassment is more of a problem for middle‐class women in management and professions, these women being in direct competition with middle‐class men who cannot use occupational power over them. Harassment of women in factories (or other non‐traditional women's work) is a problem when women

Citation

Hemming, H. (1985), "Sexual Harassment in Britain", Equal Opportunities International, Vol. 4 No. 4, pp. 5-9. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb010433