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

The Supreme Court held that occasional teasing, crude jokes, and even sometimes offensive language do not amount to harassment. It has instructed lower courts to use which standard to gauge whether the conduct in question created an unlawful hostile environment?

In the case of Ellison v. Brady (1991), the ninth circuit court of appeals first adopted a reasonable _____ standard in response to research showing that men and women have _____ views of what constitutes sexual harassment.

A meta-analysis of several dozen studies that collected data from tens of thousands of people demonstrated that those who are targets of harassment develop a variety of symptoms. Their problems might include:

Based on MacKinnon's typology, a form of sexual harassment is creating or failing to prevent a work atmosphere that is so contentious that victims cannot carry out their job responsibilities. This type of sexual harassment is referred to as:

As a result of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), discrimination based on which of the following characteristics is illegal?

Among the military, the rate of reported harassment has been found to be about_____ for females and over _____ for males.

Unfortunately, the facts of a sexual harassment case are not the only things that determine the outcome. The text notes that it is often the character or perceived character of both parties that influences the outcome of a case. Making it even more complex is the influence of the judge. Among the personal characteristics that appear to make the most impact are the judge's:

For a male experiencing sexual harassment at work, which one of the following phrases is most likely to be used by his bullies?

In Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc. (1998), the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex harassment could be:

Surveys of federal employees over a period of several years found that over _____ of women and about _____ of men claimed to have experienced sexual harassment within 2 years prior to the study.

Regarding judgments about fairness, we tend, as a group, to feel some level of distress when not getting as much as we think we deserve. Conversely, individuals seldom have any sense of concern when getting more than they deserve. Interestingly though, males and females differ in their applications of principles of fairness. According to the text, when asked to work as long as they think is fair for a set amount of money, women worked about _____ than their male counterparts. Women also tend to _____ when dividing the money between themselves and a co-worker.

Harassment is considered more serious if the harasser is:

The passage of the sexual _____ law is a result of _____.