The 9 to 5 Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment: Candid Advice from 9 to 5, The National Association of Working Women [Paperback]

Ellen Bravo (Author), Ellen Cassedy (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471575763 | ISBN-13: 978-0471575764 | Publication Date: May 22, 1992 | Edition: 1

Addresses the latest thinking about what constitutes sexual harassment. Outlines the laws, their history and how to use them. Describes the effects of this issue and offers recommendations for the future. Enables those being harassed to take action against the abuse; obtain support from others; help institute a strong workplace policy and file a formal complaint. Also helps managers and union leaders prevent harassment and deal with it effectively should it occur. A significant amount of actual harassment experiences appear throughout and assist in shaping the advice presented.

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Two new books on sexual harassment on the job offer frank discussions on the origin and scope of the problem and outline practical suggestions for surviving in today's workplaces. The 9 to 5 Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment takes an anecdotal approach, recounting numerous examples of questionable behavior to define what is harassment and what is not. Authors Bravo and Cassedy, who are directors of 9 to 5, the National Association of Working Women, cover the role managers, unions, and employers should play in preventing harassment, and they devote a chapter to what to do if you are a victim of harassment. The advice in this book is basic, sometimes simplistic, but it is generally a good overview. Attorneys Petrocelli and Repa present a thorough treatment of the subject in Sexual Harassment on the Job , including clear analysis of the laws and court decisions on harassment. Sample anti-harassment policies appear, as do suggestions for developing training programs that sensitize workers to harassment issues. A good review of the available legal remedies and a 50-state survey of fair employment laws are useful. Nolo Press has once again taken a complex legal subject and made it accessible to laypersons. See also Nancy Dodd McCann and Thomas A. McGinn's Harassed: 100 Women Define Inappropriate Behavior in the Workplace , reviewed below.--Ed.
-Joan Pedzich, Harris, Beach & Wilcox, Rochester, N.Y.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Addresses the latest thinking about what constitutes sexual harassment. Outlines the laws, their history and how to use them. Describes the effects of this issue and offers recommendations for the future. Enables those being harassed to take action against the abuse; obtain support from others; help institute a strong workplace policy and file a formal complaint. Also helps managers and union leaders prevent harassment and deal with it effectively should it occur. A significant amount of actual harassment experiences appear throughout and assist in shaping the advice presented.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (May 22, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471575763
• ISBN-13: 978-0471575764
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,494,679 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The 9 to 5 Guide to Combatting Sexual Harassment, July 29, 2000

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This review is from: The 9 to 5 Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment: Candid Advice from 9 to 5, The National Association of Working Women (Paperback)

This is an excellent, important book for any woman. Even those who have never experienced attempted sexual coercion on the job are not immune, since women are often specifically targeted as they become older and obtain more senior positions. The book details not only how to maintain one's own mental health in the face of sexual abuse on the job, but also how to prevent other adverse effects such as career damage, financial ruin, and ostracism due to a boss' lies. Unfortunately, the severe victimization of women who speak openly or file a lawsuit regarding these problems still continues, despite Anita Hill's courageous example years ago, and this book contains a massive amount of helpful information to combat this problem. This is a must for anyone who even remotely suspects that their boss' sexual "jokes" may be partly serious. The slyness with which these perpetrators hide the coercive nature of their advances can be truly surreal and mind-boggling, and the emotional effects on the woman can be very serious, similar to (or worse than?) rape. Most of the information in this guide is not widely known by the general public. Early reading of this guide just may prevent some very severe problems for you (bankruptcy, ostracism, career loss, and mental and physical illness, to name a few).

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A "how to" guide to destroy careers, November 25, 2000

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This review is from: The 9 to 5 Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment: Candid Advice from 9 to 5, The National Association of Working Women (Paperback)

Read this book- another how-to guide to take advantage of the extremely one-sided civil rights law to exact revenge on men you don't like. Couches "victims" on how to look for evidence of "victimhood" in every corner. I've seen this abuse in action, since it affected my husband, who lost his job over completely fabricated charges. We're still making up for the damage. While the book likes to point out the outrageous activities that apparently used to happen and are now essentially unheard-of, its true purpose is to drum up courtroom and formal attacks within corporations against men who have risen to positions of power. The authors show obvious glee at the prospect of harming innocent men for the perceived slights of other men through history.

Sexual harassment is now defined as anything that makes a woman uncomfortable. Contrary to the claims of this book and other books, sexual harassment laws are not applied to both genders equally, and never will be because our society presumes guilt by men. Read Hoff-Sommers War Against Boys and Daphne Patai's book on sexual harassment for the other side of this argument. This is another out-of-control book to support an out-of-control system.