Word: sexualism
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...Elena Silva, director of research for the AAUW Educational Foundation and an author of the study, explained that the study was not trying to trivialize the issue of sexual harassment by defining it so broadly. Rather, Silva said, the authors wanted to gauge the more general atmosphere and attitudes in campus environments and the existence of widespread—but not necessarily illegal—sexual harassment as a cultural phenomenon...
...interested in the attitudes and behaviors that young adults are—very appropriately—testing on campus that they will bring with them into the workplace and the wider world,” Silva said. “We were not setting out to talk about sexual harassment and define or critique it as a legal or sexual behavior...
...study showed that there was a trend towards greater incidence of sexual harassment at private colleges, four-year colleges, and larger university campuses. There were also disparities at private universities between the students’ assessments of their own experiences and their perceptions of the rest of the campus...
...Private college students were more likely to say that they had been sexually harassed when asked directly if they had been sexually harassed, but less likely than public school students to say that there was a sexual harassment problem on campus,” Silva said...
...According to the study, more male than female students are the perpetrators of harassment. Although the study shows that male and female students are equally likely to experience some sort of harassment, it appears that “female students are more likely to be upset by sexual harassment” than male students. And females are more likely change their behavior or to experience disruption in their class work or sleep because...