Summary According to the U.S Equal Employer Opportunity Commission, sexual harassment is any unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature. This does not matter whether or not it was indented. Many women have been affected by it in many different organization, including those women personnel in the United States military. The motive for this paper is close the gap of knowledge of sexual harassment in the U.S. Department of Defense service academies because not much is known about sexual harassment in the DOD academy. Also, this paper focuses mainly on the naval academy, and analyzes women experiences with sexually harassing behavior, specifically on their reasons for not filing …show more content…
The latter is an in-depth analysis of a person or a group. In this type of method of study, almost every aspect of the subject's life and history is analyzed to find any patterns and roots for behavior. The purpose of case study to learned from studying one case, then generalize it to the rest of the population. However, case studies can be very subjective. This means it is difficult to apply results to a larger population. This was not the case for the naval academy because the Naval Academy is a total intuition. There are many different sources that researchers can use to gather information. For instances, direct observation, interviews, documents, archival record, and physical artifacts are the six major sources. The researcher used interview and archival record out of the six major sources aforementioned in this research. They analyzed a U.S. General Accounting Office Survey of Naval Academy midshipmen and interviews Naval and Marine Corps officers who graduated from the Academy in the same time frame. The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) survey was part of a review of all DOD service academies. This survey also contained question regard to the treatment of students. Some aspect of this survey relevant to the current study are questions about harassing behaviors from July 1990 to December 1990. Its sample consisted of 82 percent men, 18 percent women, 64 percent whites, and 36 percent racial minorities. In comparison …show more content…
The significant of this paper is that it reveals the unexamined problem in the Naval Academy, which is female midshipman refused to report harassment through the student chain of command, although 96.8 percent of them self-reported harassment and half of that number experienced harassment in the regular basis in the case study. As a matter a fact, within five years period only 26 cases had officially reported. Also, one of these cases involved a female midshipman handcuffed to a male urinal while other midshipman took her picture. This results of her leaving the academy because she indicated that the administration refused to acknowledge the academy as being hostile place for
From the end of the draft in 1973 to the military data from 2003, the number of women in service rose from 2 percent to 12 percent. A sample of military women studied in 1991 showed 69 percent to have experienced sexual harassmen...
Thanks to courageous women like Stephanie Schroeder and the Tailhook scandal in 1991, sexual assault in the United States military does not carry the same stigma that it once did. Even Congress is “genuinely embarrassed by the extent of sexual assault in the military. It is conduct unbecoming a soldier and also makes recruiting women more difficult” (Rosen). Unfortunately, it is unlikely that sexual assault will be completely stopped. It can, however, decline through laws. Some proposed laws, like reinstating the ban on women in combat roles and Senator McCaskill’s bill, will not effectively shrink the epidemic. But until a proper solution is put into place, sexual assault will continue to permeate the United States military.
The military has become the epicenter for rape and abuse of women, all of which military officials have swept aside with all too little concern. Case after case of rape and sexual harassment are dismissed with little to no investigation made. The women of the military live scared of their male superiors and colleagues, and what they might do. Victims of sexual harassment or rape often see their pursuers honorably discharged and returned to society with no criminal record.
Out of the 575 processed cases, only 96 went to Court Martial. Obviously from the numbers, sexual assault is a serious issue in the military. Much like in the civilian world, there is bias when it comes to the guilt or innocence of the attacker, as well as the validity of the accounts of the accuser. I believe that the system in place may inadvertently contribute to the continuous rise in sexual assaults, and that if this system isn’t fixed quickly, it will be detrimental to the organization as a whole. Sexual assault has a serious negative impact on service members and their families.
Sexual Assault in the military has become an uprising problem. Within the military community, the term sexual assault carries a meaning that includes everything from violent sexual acts such as rape and forcible sodomy, to assault with intent to commit rape, unwanted sexual touching or attention and being a witness of the crime and not reporting it. Although most believe those who commit such heinous crimes are usually a person or persons with a violent record, violence is not a prerequisite for sexual assault. Once a service member becomes a victim of sexual assault, they become much more than a victim of just the crime itself. They fall victim to their own thoughts, never being able to trust their chain of command again, jeopardizing careers
Angelique Vasquez Professor Scala WGS 4100 I recently saw the documentary, The Invisible War (Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering). The Invisible War exposes the epidemic of rape and sexual assault in the U.S. military, and by using personal stories and the government’s own figures and statistics from Department of Defense reports over the years, the film demonstrates what it means to serve in the military if you’re a woman. I had no idea what I was about to witness while watching this documentary about rape in the military, but I was not prepared for the full story The Invisible War presents. The documentary outlines some of the hard facts: 20% of service women have been sexually assaulted while serving. Women who have suffered what they call ‘Military Sexual Trauma’ have a higher rate of PTSD than men who’ve served in combat.
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The US Military has a long history and jaded history of issues with sexual assault. The number of women sexually assaulted in the US Military is 5% higher than that of women in the ficivilian population; there are an estimated 20,000 sexual assaults on women service members each year. This is not, however, a strictly female problem; it is estimated that nearly half of...
What was your reaction when you first heard of the first female National Football League referee? What was your first reaction when you saw a male cheerleader for the first time? In society, there are many gender stereotypes about what males and females should or shouldn’t do. These gender stereotypes result in men and women being treated unequally. Children can also be affected by these gender stereotypes. Even though there are gender stereotypes everyone should choose to be and do as they desire.
In addition, having in consideration that the military is mostly made up of males, twenty percent is a high amount of male soldiers subjected to sexual assault and sexual harassment in reality. Victims of sexual abuse and harassment are generally involved in different situations, but according to a study performed by the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, “men are more likely to experience military sexual assault and harassment from a same-sex perpetrator, whereas the perpetrators of women’s military sexual assault and harassment experiences are most often of the opposite sex”. (Street et al).
THESIS STATEMENT: In today’s society 40 percent of the nation’s 55 million working women have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace.
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Sexual Harassment/Assault is a growing issue in the U.S. In this paper, I will highlight the meaning of sexual harassment, some of the signs, behavior theories, and concepts of being sexually harassed. The history of sexual harassment dates back to slave days when it didn’t really have a meaning or name, but women activists were protesting against it. I will explore the statistics of sexual harassment and how it occurs more commonly in women. Also, I will share my personal experiences as a teenager dealing with my sister being sexually harassed at her first job.
Sexual harassment in the workplace is a huge problem in recent history. It can happen to anyone and it can happen everywhere. It can affect all types of races, gender and age. Statistics today shows that more and more sexual harassment has become an issue due to the large number of cases presented. Mainstream media becomes consume covering sexual harassment because of the high profile cases. Sexual harassment becomes a topic on various TV shows, and on some major morning radio talk shows mostly everyday. Sexual harassment laws must be strengthened in order to fix what has become a serious problem today in the workplace.
In today’s workplace, sexual harassment is a growing problem. The legal definition of sexual harassment is any unwelcome sexual advance or conduct on the job that creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment. Another definition is the making of unwanted and offensive sexual advances or of sexually offensive remarks or acts, especially by one in a superior or supervisory position. Women and men of all ages, backgrounds, races and experience are harassed on the job. Sexual harassment encountered in workplaces is a hazard across the world that reduces the quality of working life, jeopardizes the well-being of women and men, undermines gender equality and imposes costs on firms and organizations.