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Gender differences in perception of workplace sexual harassment among future professionals

BACKGROUND: Indian society is in a stage of rapid social transition. As more women enter the workforce, stresses vis-à-vis the genders are to be expected in patriarchal society to which most of our population belongs. Earlier studies in Western societies have revealed gender differences in perceptio...

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Autores principales: Banerjee, Amitav, Sharma, Bhavana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3425241/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22969176
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.98410
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description BACKGROUND: Indian society is in a stage of rapid social transition. As more women enter the workforce, stresses vis-à-vis the genders are to be expected in patriarchal society to which most of our population belongs. Earlier studies in Western societies have revealed gender differences in perception of what constitutes sexual harassment. AIM: Elicit gender differences, if any, in the workplace sexual harassment among future professionals. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: A cross-sectional study among the students of professional colleges. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 200 students of both sexes were randomly selected from four professional colleges. Data collection was done on a structured questionnaire by interview. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Internal consistency of the questionnaire was tested by Crohnbach's α coefficient. Associations between gender and perceptions were explored with Chi-square, Odds Ratio with 95% confidence interval, where applicable. RESULTS: The differences in perception on what constitutes sexual harassment among the genders were statistically significant on many measures (P<0.01). CONCLUSIONS: Men and women differ in their awareness as to what constitute sexual harassment. Men were more lacking in awareness regarding sexual harassment.
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spelling pubmed-34252412012-09-11 Gender differences in perception of workplace sexual harassment among future professionals Banerjee, Amitav Sharma, Bhavana Ind Psychiatry J Original Article BACKGROUND: Indian society is in a stage of rapid social transition. As more women enter the workforce, stresses vis-à-vis the genders are to be expected in patriarchal society to which most of our population belongs. Earlier studies in Western societies have revealed gender differences in perception of what constitutes sexual harassment. AIM: Elicit gender differences, if any, in the workplace sexual harassment among future professionals. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: A cross-sectional study among the students of professional colleges. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 200 students of both sexes were randomly selected from four professional colleges. Data collection was done on a structured questionnaire by interview. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Internal consistency of the questionnaire was tested by Crohnbach's α coefficient. Associations between gender and perceptions were explored with Chi-square, Odds Ratio with 95% confidence interval, where applicable. RESULTS: The differences in perception on what constitutes sexual harassment among the genders were statistically significant on many measures (P<0.01). CONCLUSIONS: Men and women differ in their awareness as to what constitute sexual harassment. Men were more lacking in awareness regarding sexual harassment. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3425241/ /pubmed/22969176 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.98410 Text en Copyright: © Industrial Psychiatry Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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