Does it really help women to think of sexual harassment
primarily as a legal issue?
High-profile sexual harassment suits, such as that of Paula
Jones against President Clinton, are often life-changing events,
with all parties coming away with careers, reputations, and lives
profoundly affected. Women have long suffered on the job from
sexual extortion, now called quid pro quo harassment, but today the
controversy centers on "hostile environment" harassment. Every one
has an opinion about it; managements spend more and more money
training people not to do it; and still the suits strike like
lightning-devastating and seemingly random. Women and men often
feel polarized in the workplace by what they perceive to be general
hostility couched in sexual terms.
What to Do When You Don't Want to Call the Cops questions
establishment assumptions that women are, by definition, passive
victims who require government help. It sees instead a period of
transition toward a more balanced population of women in the
workplace, with accompanying disruptions that can be minimized by
understanding. Joan Kennedy Taylor presents what we know about the
workplace and interviews managers, labor experts, and workers in
such male-dominated fields as construction, engineering, business,
and medicine to shed light on the male group culture that exists
without women. She illustrates expressive behaviors that may be
objectionable but are not sexual harassment and proposes specific
strategies by which these objectionable behaviors can be countered,
including a new feminist approach in company training programs.
Taylor examines traditional and nontraditional workplaces, and
female on male as well as male on male harassment, in order to
apply these strategies to the entire picture.
Lively and anecdotal, Taylor's balanced, non-adversarial study
fills an important gap by providing strategies for businesses and
employees, as well as for those who find themselves the target of
sexual harassment.
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