What the #MeToo Movement Highlights and Hides about Workplace Sexual Harassment

Insights from #MeToo highlight the power of social movements to frame the public's understanding of the issue of sexual harassment and to spark counter-movements that challenge that frame. This volume will be of interest to researchers, scholars, students, practitioners, and policymakers.

What the #MeToo Movement Highlights and Hides about Workplace Sexual Harassment seeks to examine both the spotlights (Part I) and the shadows (Part II) of the #MeToo movement, setting a research agenda to examine both more carefully in management research.

Sexual harassment (SH) is not a new phenomenon in organizations; it has been the topic of scholarly inquiry since the 1970s and has existed as a form of dysfunctional organizational behavior and abuse of power for much longer. Even so, the #MeToo movement thrust this organizational issue into the spotlight, raising new awareness and concern about an age-old problem, including digital forms of SH, bystander behavior, and organizational and societal ideas around masculinity and gender-based violence. At the same time, #MeToo kept other aspects of SH in the dark. Shadows addressed include the more mundane and common forms of low-severity micro-SH, how to help targets heal from trauma, the complex intersectional experiences of women of color, the experiences of male targets and those in low socioeconomic status jobs, and the implications of #MeToo on legal theory.

Insights from #MeToo highlight the power of social movements to frame the public's understanding of the issue of SH and to spark counter-movements that challenge that frame. This volume will be of interest to researchers, scholars, students, practitioners and policymakers.

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Anne M. O'Leary-Kelly, now an Emeritus Professor, held the William R. and Cacilia Howard Chair in Management at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, USA.

Shannon Rawski is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

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Part I: Sexual Harassment Issues in the Spotlight 1. #MeToo as Social Movement 2. Ambiguous Spaces: #MeToo in the Digital Realm 3. Bystanders in the #MeToo Movement 4. Exposing Organizational Culture Through the Process of Sensemaking 5. Societal Culture and Gender-Based Violence Part II: Sexual Harassment Issues in the Shadows 6. Ambiguously Sexual Interactions 7. A Trauma-Informed Perspective on Sexual Harassment 8. The Urgency of Adopting an Intersectional Lens to Sexual Harassment Research and Practice 9. Masculinity and the Cycle of Sexual Harassment Against Men 10. The Hidden Experience of Women in the Lower Social Classes 11. Unanswered Questions of #NowWhat