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Bystanders’ thresholds for intervention in Black vs. White women’s sexual harassment

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  • Rebecca Schachtman
  • Cheryl R Kaiser

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Black women’s sexual harassment is often overlooked and dismissed relative to White women’s harassment. In three pre-registered experiments, we test whether this neglect extends to bystander intervention in sexual harassment. Participants observed an ostensibly live job interview between a man manager and a Black or White woman job candidate. The manager’s questions were pre-programmed to grow increasingly harassing, and participants were asked to intervene if/when they found the interview inappropriate. A meta-analysis of the three studies (N = 1487), revealed that bystanders did not differ in their threshold for intervention when sexual harassment targeted the Black vs. White woman. Despite evidence for the relative neglect of Black women in responses to sexual harassment, these data suggest that bystanders may respond similarly for Black and White women.

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  • Rebecca Schachtman & Cheryl R Kaiser, 2024. "Bystanders’ thresholds for intervention in Black vs. White women’s sexual harassment," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(2), pages 1-15, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0296755
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0296755
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    1. Dan Cassino & Yasemin Besen‐Cassino, 2019. "Race, threat and workplace sexual harassment: The dynamics of harassment in the United States, 1997–2016," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 26(9), pages 1221-1240, September.
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