Why do men sexually harass women at work? Science offers two explanations – but only one of them holds up
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“Two very different explanations circulate among social scientists regarding workplace sexual harassment.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to support or refute the claim about social scientists' explanations for workplace sexual harassment.
“Evolutionary psychology research posits that men and women have evolved different psychological mechanisms to solve reproductive challenges.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to support or refute the claim about evolutionary psychology and reproductive challenges.
“Women evolved to be more sensitive to threats to their sexual autonomy, perceiving men's advances as harassment.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to support or refute the claim about women's sensitivity to sexual autonomy threats.
“Sexual harassment is viewed as an expression of workplace sexism rather than sexuality under the gender hierarchy framework.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to support or refute the gender hierarchy framework's characterization of sexual harassment.
“The gender hierarchy explanation better accounts for diverse forms of workplace sexual harassment phenomena.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to support or refute the claim about gender hierarchy explaining broader harassment phenomena.
“Evolutionary psychology struggles to test its core prediction about ancestral men's reproductive success.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to support or refute the claim about evolutionary psychology's testability regarding ancestral reproductive success.
“Gender hierarchy maintenance suggests interventions like flattening organizational hierarchies could reduce harassment.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to support or refute the claim about gender hierarchy interventions for harassment reduction.
“Sexual harassment is best understood as a consequence of current social and cultural environments, not evolved human nature.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to support or refute the claim attributing harassment to contemporary social environments rather than biology.
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