Badgering or bantering? Gender differences in experience of, and reactions to, sexual harassment among US high school students

被引:92
作者
Hand, JZ [1 ]
Sanchez, L [1 ]
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[1] Tulane Univ, Dept Sociol, New Orleans, LA 70118 USA
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10.1177/089124300014006002
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C91 [社会学];
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030301 [社会学]; 1204 [公共管理学];
摘要
This study uses the American Association of University Women 1993 survey on sexual harassment in America's schools, a national sample of high school students to examine gender differences in the behavioral. emotional, and educational consequences of sexual harassment. Previous research indicates that a high percentage of both boys and girls experience sexual harassment and that the negative consequences are greater for girls. The authors use a feminist theoretical framework to show that girls' and boys' qualitatively different experiences account for part of this gender gap. Girls are far mon likely to perceive harassment as harmful than boys and to experience a far greater frequency and severity of harassment This article documents that girls are more likely to be targets of physical sexual harassment than boys and that physical harassment rather than derogatory or verbal and/or visual forms of harassment exacerbate the gender gap in educational outcomes.
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页码:718 / 746
页数:29
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