The Reasonable Woman Standard: Effects on Sexual Harassment Court Decisions

Topics:
Harassment
Tags:
Court Decision,
Gender And Diversity,
Harassment,
Human Resources,
Woman
Source:
American Psychology Association

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Overview: Some federal courts have used a reasonable woman standard rather than the traditional reasonable man or reasonable person standard to determine whether hostile environment sexual harassment has occurred. This paper examines the impact of the reasonable woman standard on federal district court decisions, controlling for other factors found to affect sexual harassment court decisions. Results indicate that there was a weak relationship between whether a case followed a reasonable woman precedent-setting case and the likelihood that the court decision favored the plaintiff.

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Format: PDF | Size: 95KB | Date: Feb 2004 | Pages: 19

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