(Answered) : Recent Research Shows 30 Percent Female Workers United States Harassed Work Virtually Men Q34363718

Recent research shows that more than 30 percent of femaleworkers in the United States have been harassed at work—virtuallyall of them by men. Forty-three percent identified the maleharasser as a supervisor, 27 percent as an employee senior to them,and 19 percent as a coworker at the same level. In 2012 (the lastyear for which there is complete data), nearly 13,000 charges ofsexual harassment were filed with the EEOC, 84 percent of them bywomen. Why does sexual harassment (mostly of women) occur in theworkplace? “Power,” says researcher Debbie Dougherty, who conducteda study in conjunction with a large Midwestern health careorganization. “It