Citation

Mccormack AS. Violence Against Women 1995; 1(3): 254-265.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

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PMID

12322335

Abstract

This article presents a comparison of 1989 and 1993 studies of the sexual harassment of undergraduate women at a northeastern public university in the US. Samples included 53% of senior, nontransferred women (N = 264) on the campus. Results suggest that sexual harassment incidents have decreased over the last 4 years. However, it remains a continuing problem, with approximately 1 in every 5 women likely to experience an incident of sexual harassment by her senior year. Although approximately one-third of students continue to cite faculty members as perpetrators and several personnel in other areas of the university, most women continue to report other students as perpetrators. The results indicate that measures taken by university personnel to combat sexual harassment may be responsible for the decrease in reported incidents, yet more work still needs to be done.

Language: en