NCJ Number
141070
Journal
Journal of Criminal Justice Education Volume: 3 Issue: 2 Dated: special issue (Fall 1992) Pages: 315-330
Date Published
1992
Length
16 pages
Annotation
A questionnaire survey of 986 undergraduate students at the University of Hawaii at Manoa gathered information regarding gender differences in definitions, attitudes, and judgments of offensiveness of behaviors that are considered by some to be sexual harassment.
Abstract
A subsample of these participants also completed a questionnaire designed to elicit judgments of scenarios depicting potentially harassing interactions between professors and students. Results revealed a relationship between stereotypic attitudes and scenario judgments, as well as significant differences in judgments of offensiveness of particular behaviors. Fewer gender differences were found in items measuring students' feelings about whether "gray-area" behaviors fit the legal definition of sexual harassment. Both male and female regarded some forms of sexist speech to be as objectionable as quid pro quo harassment. In addition, students' judgments of the reportability of hypothetical incidents were not consistent with legal definitions of sexual harassment. Tables and 28 references