Does Sexual Harassment Training Change Attitudes? A View from the Federal Level
Document Type
Article
Department
Economics (CMC)
Publication Date
12-2003
Abstract
Employment-related sexual harassment imposes large costs on both workers and their employers and many organizations have responded by implementing formal policies, grievance procedures, or training programs. However, limited evaluation of these interventions leaves us knowing very little about their impact. Our goal is to add to this limited empirical literature by analyzing the relationship between sexual harassment training and employees' views about what behaviors in fact constitute sexual harassment.
We use probit analysis and data drawn from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (USMSPB) of the U.S. federal government to determine—separately by gender—the impact of sexual harassment training on the propensity of workers to define specific unwanted sexual behaviors in the workplace as forms of sexual harassment.
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DOI
10.1046/j.0038-4941.2003.08404001.x
Recommended Citation
Antecol, Heather, and Deborah Cobb-clark. "Does Sexual Harassment Training Change Attitudes? A View from the Federal Level." Social Science Quarterly 84.4 (2003): 826–842. doi: 10.1046/j.0038-4941.2003.08404001.x
