{"id":125,"date":"2024-04-09T20:35:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T20:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/on-discourse\/?p=125"},"modified":"2024-04-10T13:10:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T13:10:27","slug":"mentoo-understanding-how-gender-dynamics-in-the-workplace-influence-mens-experiences-of-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/on-discourse\/mentoo-understanding-how-gender-dynamics-in-the-workplace-influence-mens-experiences-of-sexual-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"#MenToo: Understanding How Gender Dynamics in the Workplace Influence Men\u2019s Experiences of Sexual Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 18<sup>th<\/sup>, Furman\u2019s Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department and Psychology Department co-hosted Dr. Casanova\u2019s presentation of her findings from her #MenToo study.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Casanova\u2019s study of men\u2019s experience of sexual harassment is a vital new contributor to the field of gender research. While acknowledging that women are more likely to experience gender and sexual harassment in the workforce, Dr. Casanova points out that men\u2019s experiences of harassment are not studied as frequently. She found that there is a gap between reporting, and even defining, gender and sexual harassment for men. Dr. Casanova has conducted two studies of sexual harassment and her presentation to Furman students compared the two: one study in a hypermasculine workplace (the military) and the other conducted in a hyperfeminine workplace (nursing).<\/p>\n<p>Engaging with ideas that encourage students to question how we define masculinity in our culture and what effects that might have on society, Dr. Casanova reflects on the \u201cpressure to conform\u201d and how gender harassment for men can look like \u201cnot being man enough\u201d or other statements that police behavior. Her studies lead to a conversation on what Dr. Casanova calls \u201cMasculinity Contest Culture\u201d. She explains that MCC workplace environment can be present in a female dominated profession as well, by encouraging behavior of \u201cshowing no weakness, strength and stamina, put work first, and dog-eat-dog\u201d, and these practices can lead to organizational tolerance of sexual and gender harassment. Her findings contradict societal assumptions and show that men are experiencing high rates of sexual and other harassment, and that both women and men are perpetrators of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Based on her research, Dr. Casanova recommends that employers implement a no-tolerance harassment and toxic work culture policy early on, and that we should avoid practices or actions that enforce gender roles or a gendered work culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 18th, Furman\u2019s Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department and Psychology Department co-hosted Dr. Casanova\u2019s presentation of her findings from her #MenToo study. Dr. Casanova\u2019s study of men\u2019s experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-previous-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/on-discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/on-discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/on-discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/on-discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/on-discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/on-discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/on-discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/on-discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/on-discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/on-discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}