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Compensating Differentials For Sexual Harassment, Joni Hersch
Compensating Differentials For Sexual Harassment, Joni Hersch
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This paper provides evidence of the relation between the risk of sexual harassment and wages. While one approach to detecting the effect on wages of sexual harassment would be to estimate wage equations controlling for whether an individual reports that he or she had been sexually harassed, sexual harassment on the job is unlikely to be exogenous with respect to wages, and it is difficult to identify appropriate variables that would allow instrumental variables estimation. In addition, there are almost no data reporting information on sexual harassment as well as wages and other determinants of wages. To avoid these problems, …
Beyond Equality? Against The Universal Turn In Workplace Protection, Jessica A. Clarke
Beyond Equality? Against The Universal Turn In Workplace Protection, Jessica A. Clarke
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Sexual harassment law and family leave policy originated as feminist reform projects designed to protect women in the workplace. But many academics now ask whether harassment and leave policies have outgrown their gendered roots. The anti-bullying movement advocates taking the “sexual” out of harassment law to prohibit all forms of on-the-job mistreatment. Likewise, the work-life balance movement advocates taking the “family” out of leave policy to require employers to accommodate all types of life pursuits. These proposals are in line with recent cases and scholarship on civil rights that reframe problems once seen as issues of inequality as deprivations of …