ABSTRACT
Broadly defined, sexual harassment is unsolicited and nonreciprocal male behavior that emphasizes women’s sex roles over their roles as organizational members 1 (Farley, 1978; Meyer, Berchtold, Oestrich, & Collins, 1981). Because women’s traditional sex roles prescribe a wide variety of behavioral expectations, some of which are more sexual in nature than others, most definitions of sexual harassment focus explicitly on sexually oriented behaviors. The Alliance Against Sexual Coercion (AASC), for example, described sexual harassment as “any sexually oriented practice that endangers a woman’s job, that undermines her job performance and threatens her economic livelihood” (Backhouse & Cohen, 1981).
