Exam 14: Workplace Law: Harassment, Discrimination, and Fairness

Studies have found that women are most likely to experience sexual harassment:

Overall, research has shown that women are _____ men to be the targets of sexual harassment. According to the text, women experience harassment _____ men.

In police hiring, certain requirements became illegal. The courts ruled that the following requirements constituted adverse impact on female applicants:

It has been found that in jobs dominated by men, women are _____ to experience sexual harassment when compared to other working groups.

What steps can be taken to reduce prejudice? Provide some examples.

In Harris v. Forklift Systems (1993), the Supreme Court held that in sexual harassment cases, it was _____ to show psychological injury, and a _____ standard should be applied.

Some courts have replaced a reasonable person standard with a reasonable woman standard when instructing juries in sexual harassment trials. All of the following concerns were raised by social scientists about the reasonable woman standard, EXCEPT:

When women are victimized, their harassment _____ other women.

When males are sexually harassed by other males, it is most likely to take a form of:

Ben felt that he should have received more money for his efforts and he followed an established procedure to appeal his case to the supervisor, detailing the amount of work done and his contributions to the final product. Ben's ability to participate in the process of reward distribution decisions is an example of:

According to the text, legal, permissible sexual behavior in the workplace is _____ common than illegal sexual harassment. The cases that end up in court involve especially _____.

Yale law professor Catharine MacKinnon has defined two basic forms of sexual harassment at work: _____ harassment and _____ harassment.

Two basic forms of sexual harassment at work were categorized by a Yale law professor:

In studies of mock jurors' perceptions of sexual harassment cases, jurors focused on several features of the case when deciding on a verdict. These features include all of the following, EXCEPT:

It is often difficult to evaluate how much sexual harassment takes place on the job. One reason, according to the text, is that when asked about such past events, victims' reports might be biased due to:

It is difficult to obtain exact estimates of how often harassment in the workplace occurs. All of the following are valid reasons for this, EXCEPT:

In instances in which employees feel they are being treated unfairly, they generally try to:

When an employer treats some workers less favorably as a result of an immutable personal characteristic like race or gender, such behavior constitutes a category of discrimination called:

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964:

According to the text, older judges generally rule in favor of the _____, whereas younger judges tend to rule in favor of the _____.