A study to assess organizational antecedents and women's experiences of sexual harassment in the workplace

When more women began entering the workforce in the 2001s, sexual harassment was first publicized as a problem in the workplace. Globally, women report being sexually harassed at work. In the India, 40% to 75% of women reported experiencing sexually harassing behaviors while at work, and more than 70% reported verbal behaviors as the most common form of sexual harassment. The objectives of this paper are: 1) to systematically examine the antecedents of women's exposure to sexual harassment in selected male-dominated occupations and identify research gaps; 2) Assessing the psychometric properties of an author-developed antecedent scale of sexual harassment agency, and 3) examining relationships between perceived organizational antecedents, demographic variables, and sexual harassment; and determining the associations between job control, workplace culture, and self-reported sexual harassment, age, race, ethnicity, income, and tenur