On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Miguel Roig wrote:
> ABSTRACT
>
> Recently, Sandler (1991). stated women faculty are treated with less respect than
> males by students. This study examined contrapower sexual harassment (i.e.,
> student harassment of faculty) at four-year public institutions. Faculty (N =
> 7147) from ten states reported, via e-mail, the frequencies of 15 respect
> behaviors
> and 19 harassment items. We failed to find support for Sandler's assertion.
> Significant gender differences were found for only one respect and one harassment
> item.
I have been thinking about this a lot... the problem may not be harassment
itself, but how students expect male vs. female professors to respond to
manipulativeness and hostility. That is, I believe [based on a very
limited sample of my own experiences and those of my peers] that male
faculty are more free to "push back" at students who are acting
inappropriately, whether by just saying "no" or penalizing the student in
some way or even throwing him/her out of class.
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Ann Muir Thomas, Ph.D. http://erebus.bentley.edu/empl/t/athomas
"The Accidental Jewess"
Bentley College, Waltham, MA
"You aren't belittled by being little. Only by acting small." --- Red
