American women, especially, are paying attention. But they're interpreting the news in significantly different ways based on their age and generational cohort, experts say.
Tuesday, November 07, 2017
Does your generation determine how you perceive sexual harassment?
American women, especially, are paying attention. But they're interpreting the news in significantly different ways based on their age and generational cohort, experts say.
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it's so interesting that even in this article about sexual assault the the generational differences, there is no consensus on how that difference truly works. There's even some finger pointing at women for being desensitized to it because of the prevalence of explicit pop songs and TV shows and not recognizing it when they should, something completely counterintuitive! I do agree, however, that my generation tends to be more clueless about what sexual harassment is. We may be better informed about rape, about sexual assault and about being catcalled on the street, but nothing the workplaces few of us have experienced no on explained to us how sexual harassment works in a professional setting. While here in college I'm starting to learn, and with Hollywood finally opening the discussion it's being seen a bit more on the media, still no one wants to talk about specifics with younger people. But you can't necessarily blame the younger generations for this fuzziness on the exact lines to draw. We are rarely taught anything about this stuff in high school, or even in college where there's no real mandatory classes or sessions on sexual harassment like their is about sexual assault and rape prevention. I'd love to see more attention drawn to this specifically and help t e next generation really recognize what is and isn't okay behavior in the workplace, so that issues like this are better addressed by better informed people more confident in their judgment of the situation.
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