Abstract
The present study was designed to study sexual harassment, which concerns mainly with women at workplace and the reasons behind this harassment. The data were collected from different developmental organization INGO’s and NGO’s through a questionnaire. The sample of the study comprised of one hundred and eighty two (N=182) women working at different organizations with minimum experience of four years or above. The findings of the present study revealed that organizational ethics and attractiveness were found to be positively and significantly associated with sexual harassment at workplaces whereas the study showed reveal that familiarity with organization harassment policy was negatively associated with sexual harassment at workplaces. Open sitting or sitting in organizations with shut doors were not significantly associated with sexual harassment at workplace. It was concluded from the findings of the present study that organizational ethics play a a highly significant role in sexual harassment against working women.
Highlights
The present study was designed to study sexual harassment, which concerns mainly with women at workplace and the reasons behind this harassment
The results revealed that organization ethics, familiarity of organizational sexual harassment policy and attractiveness are significant at p
The study was based on four factors and their relationship with sexual harassment at workplace
Summary
The present study was designed to study sexual harassment, which concerns mainly with women at workplace and the reasons behind this harassment. Open sitting or sitting in organizations with shut doors were not significantly associated with sexual harassment at workplace It was concluded from the findings of the present study that organizational ethics play a a highly significant role in sexual harassment against working women. Due to serious nature of the issue, different voices in the country forced the Pakistan’s government to promulgate law against sexual harassment at workplaces, which resulted in the year 2010 in the form of “Protection against Harassment of women at workplace”. This law is in force in Pakistan but still sexual harassment remains a common complaint especially for females. The difficult task in explaining sexual harassment is the term “unwelcome behaviour”. (Smit and Du Plessis, 2011)
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