Same-sex harassment: implications of the Oncale decision for forensic evaluation of plaintiffs

✍ Scribed by William E. Foote; Jane Goodman-Delahunty

• Book ID: 101281074
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 169 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0735-3936
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0798(199901/03)17:1<123::aid-bsl334>3.0.co;2-v

✦ Synopsis

The US Supreme Court recently rendered an opinion in Oncale v. Sundowner Oshore Services, Inc. (1998), holding that same-sex sexual harassment of a male by another male provides a basis for a title VII hostile work environment claim. Social scientists have recently begun to research same-sex sexual harassment. The data indicate that men are the predominant targets of intragender sexual harassment, and that patterns of same-sex harassment dier from those of inter-gender harassment. The clinical research on male victims of sexual abuse suggests that symptom pictures for same-sex victims may dier from models based upon women's experience of hostile work environments. Implications for social science research and clinical practice are discussed.