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Sexual harassment 10 times more in casual, contract jobs

Women employed in casual and contract jobs are up to ten times more likely to experience unwanted sexual advances than those in permanent full time positions, a University of Melbourne study has found.

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Teenage girls still experience harassment

Girls and women have made dramatic strides toward gender equality in the United States. Role models and opportunities for girls in science, technology, and sports exist today that were not available 50 years ago. Despite these advances, results from a new study show that teenage girls from diverse ethnic and economic backgrounds continue to experience sexism.

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Culture affects how teen girls see harassment

Teenage girls of all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds still experience sexism and sexual harassment – but cultural factors may control whether they perceive sexism as an environmental problem or as evidence of their own shortcomings.

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Both boys and girls negatively affected by sexual harassment

A new study in Psychology of Women Quarterly explored the outcomes of sexual harassment on both boys and girls. While girls were harassed more frequently, boys were indirectly yet negatively affected through a school climate that tolerates the harassment of girls.

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Weather Channel's Hillary Andrews Wins Bob Stokes Harassment Case

Hillary Andrews, 38, ex-anchorwoman on The Weather Channel, has won a sexual harassment case against former co-anchor Bob Stokes.

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Sexual harassment at school, more harmful than bullying

Schools’ current focus on bullying prevention may be masking the serious and underestimated health consequences of sexual harassment, according to James Gruber from the University of Michigan-Dearborn and Susan Fineran from the University of Southern Maine in the US.

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Nanny Jessica Gibson Sues Rob Lowe For Harassment

Jessica Gibson, the nanny of Rob Lowe and wife Sheryl Berkoff, accused Lowe of sexual harassment on NBC's Today Show on Tuesday morning. While Gibson and two other former employees demand money from Lowe, he’s countered with a suit that says he’s the victim of an extortion plot and that the three employees have engaged in a variety of misdeeds, including sex on his bed while he and his wife were gone.

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Bullying more harmful than sexual harassment on job

Workplace bullying, such as belittling comments, persistent criticism of work and withholding resources, appears to inflict more harm on employees than sexual harassment, say researchers who presented their findings at a conference today.

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Sen. Larry Craig (R) Arrested for Lewd Conduct

Roll Call today broke a story that Senator Larry Craig, a veteran republican senator from Idaho was arrested in in June at a Minnesota airport by a plainclothes police officer investigating lewd conduct complaints in a men’s public restroom.

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Power in workplace can lead to sexual harassment

In the hands of the wrong person, power can be dangerous. That's especially the case in the workplace, where the abuse of power can lead to sexual harassment.

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US soldier walks away from her post in Iraq due to sexual harassment

The U.S. Army has reached a deal with a military police soldier who walked away from her post and refused to return to Iraq because she said she was sexually harassed by other officers.

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At Risk at Home: Nearly Half of Women at Home Suffer Abuse Study Says

According to a survey by women's issues organizations, 46 out 100 married women in Armenia are subjected to domestic violence, and 67 working women experience sexual harassment on the job.

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