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Gender & Society, Vol. 11, No. 2, 215-237 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/089124397011002005

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"HEY, WHY DON'T YOU WEAR A SHORTER SKIRT?"

Structural Vulnerability and the Organization of Sexual Harassment in Temporary Clerical Employment

JACKIE KRASAS ROGERS

The Pennsylvania State University

KEVIN D. HENSON

Bowdoin College

Research on sexual harassment in the workplace has followed several trajectories: the extent of sexual harassment, labeling sexual harassment, responses to sexual harassment, and contributing factors to sexual harassment. Much of this research has been necessarily applied, leaving theoretical frameworks concerning sexual harassment underdeveloped. This research uses the case of the sexual harassment of temporary workers to develop grounded theory to provide a more structural understanding of sexual harassment. While temporary employment has increased dramatically in the past 15 years, researchers have only recently begun to document the effects of this trend. This research is based on 68 in-depth interviews from two broader studies on clerical temporary work in Chicago and Los Angeles. The researchers find that the organization of temporary work fosters sexual harassment through the magnification of asymmetrical power relationships.


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