S/I ON WORK AND THE ECONOMY
Symbol interactionalism perspective
Read Application Case 3-1 Sexual Harassment Cases Are Becoming More Complex on pages 90-91 in the text. Analyze the case and thoroughly answer the three questions at the end of the case.…
Justice Scalia in his concurring opinion of the case Meritor Savings Bank v.Vinson (1986) discusses the standard required to classify a “ hostile work environment.” He states that a “ hostile work environment, ” will be made up of “ an environment that a reasonable person would find hostile or abusive (205). The classification of a workplace as a “ hostile work environment,” is a very difficult task considering classifying a firm as a “ hostile work environment,” could severely ruin their reputation and their income. Such label should not emerge as part of a one time incident, especially if the companies chooses to assess the harassment claims shortly after they are filed. Severity must also fall into consideration when defining a hostile work environment because of how potentially damaging these actions can be. The harsher cases of harassment require harsher punishment for the perpetrator to act as a deterrent. However, if a pattern emerges or the…
Ray, D. (2002, Workplace violence: Strategies for prevention. Law Now, 26, 18-20. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/219934745?accountid=35812; http://AV4KC7FG4G.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Acbcacompletealumni&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Law+Now&rft.atitle=Workplace+Violence%3A+Strategies+for+Prevention&rft.au=Ray%2C+David&rft.aulast=Ray&rft.aufirst=David&rft.date=2002-04-01&rft.volume=26&rft.issue=5&rft.spage=18&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Law+Now&rft.issn=08412626…
Brilliant Lies by David Williamson shows that sexual harassment is a twisted combination of sex and power. Susy Conner uses sex to gain power, Gary Fitzgerald uses power to gain sex and Brian Conner was too drunk to realise his abuse of both power and sexual harassment. All of these characters wanted something and they all thought they knew how to get it by using either sex or power, or a little of each.…
In simple words , we can define workplace harassment as undesirable or unwanted attention of an unacceptable nature from people at work, which causes discomfort, or distress, and / or interferes with the job towards a person or a group of people.…
As law was put in place women would take their cases to court having their claims rejected by lower courts citing that they were fired due to their refusal to have affairs with their bosses not because of their sex (Schultz and Goldsmith, 2001). In lieu of this, appellate courts reversed and held the employer accountable for the bosses’ action which is now called quid pro quo harassment (Schultz and Goldsmith,…
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What is decisive in determining whether behaviour constitutes SH is not whether the victim is bothered, but whether the behaviour is an instance of a practice that expresses and perpetuates the attitude that the victim and members of her sex are inferior because of their sex…
According to the United States Department of Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are approximately 120,589,850 people employed in the United States out of an estimated 330,000,000 total citizens (U.S. Department of Labor). This means that over one-third of the country’s total population is currently employed. With such a large percentage of the population in the work force, it has become necessary to incorporate laws and restrictions that protect a worker’s individual rights. Over the last 50 years there have been several historic measures taken by the United States government to protect workers from not only physically hazardous working conditions but any working environment that may be deemed ‘hostile;” be it physical or mental. One area that has drawn significant attention by lawmakers is the topic of discrimination in the workplace. Since 1963 the United States government has taken substantial steps to ensure that every American is protected from discrimination in the workplace. A few monumental actions taken by the government to protect workers’ rights include legislation such as; The Equal Pay Act of 1963, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, Sections 501 and 505 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title I and Title V of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, The Civil Rights Act of 1991, Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, and the establishment of the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, or EEOC, in 1964 to monitor and investigate cases of alleged discrimination.…
Under the Canadian federal and provincial human rights legislation, both men and women in workplace are supposed to be free from sexual harassment. Apart from this issue, workplace bullying also refer to “persistent and repeated offensive, unsafe, unwanted, or intimidating physical, psychological, or sexual behaviors that abuse power or control in the workplace” (Boddy, 2011; Hogh, Hoel, & Carneiro, 2011; MacIntosh, 2005). In 2008, sexual harassment towards women being reported to police was about 68% per 100,000 people, which was nearly 10 times higher than the rate…
In recent years there has been a push back against employment law. Major employers have been working to try and reduce the protections given to workers, in the name of higher profits. Employment laws were put in place to protect workers from wrong-doing from their employers. Without it, workers would be vulnerable to a number of things.…
Based on this week’s reading, what are the delimiting factors which determine whether or not an individual is experiencing sexual harassment or sexual abuse? In your opinion, how prevalent are these offenses and what is an appropriate response?…
In my workplace, where I worked for over a year, I witnessed both oppression and discrimination. However, at the time I did not realise it was a form of oppression and discrimination, and so I did not understand the full extent of the situation. But now my understanding is that it was, and it could have been stopped. The situation was, many of my fellow workers got paid different wages and the difference was between male and female workers. Throughout working there, people was aware of this but they thought it was due to other reasons and not based on gender. For example, how long a person had worked there, the hours a person was doing or them doing a different job to themselves. At the time, we had a lack of knowledge to the law relating to…
I am a woman. It is something that I cannot change. In "The Gravity of Pink," Eden Abigail Trooboff writes that women struggle to find an identity in the world. She describes her own experiences, which she encountered as a woman. I also have my own share of experiences.…
A hostile environment usually requires a pattern of offensive sexual behavior rather than a single, isolated remark or display (Scarborough & Zimmerer, 2006). “Most sexual harassment charges arise from claims of a hostile environment (Scarborough & Zimmerer, 2006).” “Some experts believe male-dominated workplaces are likely to be the most hostile to women (Zwettler, 1997).”…