Harassment and violence between colleagues can have serious and uneven repercussions. Photograph: iStockThe #MeToo movement has made people pay much more attention to the problem of sexual harassment and violence at work. The stories that hit the headlines are often about powerful men who managed to avoid career repercussions for years. Now, economists are beginning to use real-world data to study incidents of everyday harassment and assault in ordinary workplaces, which never make the news.
The highest rates for women were in industrial jobs, while the highest rates for men were in service and sales jobs. Power dynamics seem to play a role here: both men and women self-reported more sexual harassment when their supervisor was of the opposite sex. Abi Adams-Prassl, an economics professor at Oxford, and her co-authors identified more than 5,000 cases of violence between colleagues who shared a workplace. The vast majority of the perpetrators were men, while victims were evenly split between men and women.
In common with the Swedish study, an imbalance of power helps to explain what is going on. The study on Finland finds that when perpetrators are more senior in the workplace, they suffer fewer career consequences. The researchers find that victims of male-female violence are relatively young and low-earning compared with their perpetrators. This is not the case for male-on-male violence, which tends to occur between relative equals in terms of age and income.
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