Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Volume 39 Issue 1

From me too to what now: advancing scholarship on sex harassment issue 1: a persistent problem

Margaret S. Stockdale, Myrtle P. Bell, Faye Crosby, Jennifer Berdahl

Unseen: the sexual harassment of low-income women in America

Louise Fitzgerald

The purpose of this paper is to explore the harassment of vulnerable women whose lives and experiences remain largely unseen in the era of #MeToo.

Dual effects of self-focused and other-focused power on sexual harassment intentions

Margaret S. Stockdale, Declan O. Gilmer, Tuyen K. Dinh

The purpose of this paper is to examine two forms of power construal – self-focused and other-focused power – on effects of increasing or decreasing sex-based harassment (SBH…

Out-of-body experience: Sex-based harassment linked to general dissociation, sexual dissociation, and sexual communication

Alexis A. Adams-Clark, Marina N. Rosenthal, Jennifer J. Freyd

Although prior research has indicated that posttraumatic stress symptoms may result from sex-based harassment, limited research has targeted a key posttraumatic outcome  

Ostracizing targets of workplace sexual harassment before and after the #MeToo movement

Stephanie E.V. Brown, Jericka S. Battle

The purpose of this paper is to explore the connections between sexual harassment and ostracism both before and after the modern day #MeToo movement. It outlines how the birth of…

High-profile sexual misconduct media triggers sex harassment recall and reinterpretation

Brittney Amber, Tuyen K. Dinh, Arielle N. Lewis, Leidy D. Trujillo, Margaret S. Stockdale

The purpose of this paper is to explore a possible effect of #MeToo media on individuals’ personal recall and reinterpretation of sex harassment (SH) experiences. The authors…

Sharing #MeToo on Twitter: incidents, coping responses, and social reactions

Kimberly T. Schneider, Nathan J. Carpenter

The purpose of this paper is to examine 2,102 #MeToo tweets and focuses on the content of the tweets and social reactions to these tweets. For a subsample of 912 tweets that…

From Anita Hill to Christine Blasey Ford: a reflection on lessons learned

Sarah E. Heck

The purpose of this paper is to offer a critical reflection on congressional testimony in the #MeToo era from the standpoint of a millennial graduate student.