Alleged Harassment Research Articles

Relatos sobre maestras acosadas e inmorales: género, educación y disciplinamiento en el sistema escolar argentino (1919-1935)

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between gender and education by taking as a reference the case of three teachers who were punished for assumed moral offences committed in their private sphere. Two of these teachers were exonerated. These events took place in 1919, 1921 and 1935 in Mendoza, Chubut and Rio Negro provinces, respectively. Furthermore, we will carry out the analysis of a file on an alleged harassment committed by senior male staff members. Morality was one of the pillars sustained in academic teacher training and served as a method of controlling the teaching staff. In many respects, this search deals with the disciplinary mechanisms applied by the Consejo Nacional de Educación (National Board of Education, CNE), which strove to regulate bodies and behavior in response to the assumed immoralities committed by the teaching staff. We develop a descriptive analysis as a way of delving into representations, mindsets and patriarchal mandates reproduced in the school system.

Legend or Truth? The supposed distance of the German pathologist Maximilian Borst (1869-1946) from National Socialism

The German physician Maximilian Borst (1869–1946) was undoubtedly one of the best-known and most renowned pathologists worldwide of his time. His work on tissue transplantation and cancer research set international standards. Furthermore his career in Germany was also almost unprecedented: He was appointed to a chair of pathology at a young age during the German Reich, continued his career seamlessly in the Weimar Republic and was even able to expand his career in the Third Reich. Finally, after the end of the Nazi regime, he was among the group of university teachers who were considered to be politically unencumbered.The background to this favourable classification – and to Borst’s unbroken career – was the fact that he had not joined the NSDAP in the Third Reich. Accordingly, he was considered apolitical. But is this reading tenable in the case of Maximilian Borst and does it stand up to critical historical scrutiny? What was the nature of Borst’s relationship to the Nazi regime and what was his political position?It is precisely these questions that are the focus of this article. The study is primarily based on archival sources. In addition, a systematic analysis was performed of the relevant international research literature on Max Borst’s life and work and on the history of cancer research in the Third Reich in particular.The paper comes to the conclusion that Borst demonstrably served the Nazi regime after 1933. However, Borst’s closeness and loyalty to the National Socialists was not revealed through formal memberships of organisations such as the NSDAP or the SS, but rather through a number of influential positions in the field of health policy which were offered to him during the Third Reich. There is no doubt that the transfer of such functions presupposed “political reliability” and “loyalty to the line” on the part of the officeholder. Borst’s often assumed inner distance to politics in general and to National Socialism in particular is just as incorrect as his alleged harassment by the Nazi bureaucratic system.

Female Nurses and Educators Reactions to SexualHarassment Charges: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

This study is a direct replication of a previous study involving Brazilian and U.S. college students’ reactions to a written account of sexual harassment accusations. In the current study, the participants were female middle class nurses and public school teachers. Specifically, 155 U.S. professional women (95% White) and 173 Brazilian counterparts read a fictitious newspaper article describing an alleged case of sexual harassment by a male instructor toward a female undergraduate, in which power, romantic interest, and discrimination concerns were manipulated. Next, participants rated the degree to which his actions were punishable. Overall, U.S. professional women advocated more punishment to the alleged harasser than did Brazilian professional women. These findings are in keeping with past studies using college students. Conditions that increase or reduce the punishment ratings are also discussed.

Phrasing, linking, judging: Communication and critical phenomenology

When two people dispute reality claims resulting from different perceptions of the power matrix in their working relationship, and the discourse of one operates according to assumptions that are heterogeneous to that of the other, how might their respective tableaus be evaluated? Whose interests ultimately guide the formal and/or informal adjudication of such disputes when they take place on the grounds of institutional 1 life? These questions have become central to my research on ambiguous cases of harassment in which different senses of reality collide and damages are felt, but no clearcut violations of law can be found. Interviews and conversations with alleged harassers and harassees have broadened my critical concerns to include how agents mandated with resolving harassment complaints are able to do so while keeping the integrity of each disputant and the interests of the institution at heart/in mind. 2 In this paper I discuss how Maurice Merleau-Ponty's seminal work in communication phenomenology and Jean-Francois Lyotard's complementary theory of the differend have influenced my thinking about the social disease known as sexual harassment. To illustrate their contributions to this debate, I present and critically analyze an alleged harasser's narrative taken from my current research with Jacqueline Martinez (1992). Martinez and I are concerned with how power, ambiguity, and desire are constructed or dissimulated communicatively in harassment complaints - both formal and informal - and how an ostensible harassment situation might be resolved without valorizing mechanistic forms of communication among people in institutional environments. I conclude the essay with a plea that supports the idea that abysses between men and women are cultural gaps that should not necessarily be eliminated but cultivated into new idioms of communication amenable to the human and institutional interests of any particular dispute.

Sexual harassment: Rights and responsibilities

This article briefly reviews the development of a philosophy about sexual harassment at work and legal protection for victims of harassment. It then focuses on the rights and responsibilities of three groups affected by sexual harassment: the target of harassment, the alleged harasser, and the employing organization. A discussion follows regarding the current status of the rights and responsibilities of the relevant parties as well as opportunities for abuse of rights and abnegation of responsibilities.

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: A Review of the Legal Rights and Responsibilities of All Parties

In recent years, no area of employment law has generated as much concern and controversy as sexual harassment. Employers have gained a keen, and often painful, awareness of the consequences of sexual harassment in the workplace. This article addresses the issue of sexual harassment from the perspective of the rights and responsibilities of all parties involved, including the employer, employee, coworker, nonemployee, charging party (alleged harassee), and accused (alleged harasser).