Prohibiting Workplace Sexual Harassment

A Cross-Cultural Analysis

Cher Weixia Chen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

286 Seiten

2025
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-2934-2 (ISBN)

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This book provides a cross-cultural analysis of how legislatures, judiciaries, NGOs, and corporations worldwide address workplace sexual harassment. Informed by the ongoing cultural relativism v. universalism debate, Cher Weixia Chen draws upon four theoretical models of gender and policy: the sameness model, the difference model, the dominance model, and the critical feminist model, injecting new vitality into the existing literature on sexual harassment.

Chen systematically investigates and characterizes strategies for prohibiting workplace sexual harassment across the globe, moving beyond the Euro-American focus to offer a comprehensive global survey on an emerging universal human rights norm. She evaluates a vast range of data, including national workplace sexual harassment laws across 193 countries, 37 judicial decisions from the highest courts of 10 common law countries, and policies from 30 NGOs in six countries and the 50 largest global corporations. By raising awareness of the cultural variations in sexual harassment laws and policies, this book ultimately aims to contribute to improving the wellbeing of workers and building working environments free from harassment worldwide.

Prohibiting Workplace Sexual Harassment is an essential resource for students and academics in gender and law, employment law, human rights, and law and society. Its diverse methodologies and engaging perspectives will also greatly benefit practising lawyers, policymakers and NGOs.

Cher Weixia Chen, Associate Professor, School of Integrative Studies, George Mason University, USA

Contents
1 Introduction: the #MeToo movement and workplace sexual
harassment
2 Prohibition of workplace sexual harassment: the role of
legislatures
3 Prohibition of workplace sexual harassment: the role of
judiciaries
4 Prohibition of workplace sexual harassment: the role of NGOs
5 Prohibition of workplace sexual harassment: the role of
corporations
6 Conclusion: a human rights norm of prohibiting workplace
sexual harassment

Erscheinungsdatum	17.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	Elgar Studies in Law and Society
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-0353-2934-4 / 1035329344
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-2934-2 / 9781035329342
Zustand	Neuware