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Extent and Nature of Sexual Harassment in the Fashion Retail Workplace: 10 Years Later

William E. Hauck

Kent State University

Sexual harassment continues to be a pervasive and costly problem for businesses, government, and educational institutions. In the past 15 years, workplace sexual harassment has become prominent in the public consciousness. In fashion retailing, an industry with a large number of young, unmarried female employees and relatively large power differentials between organizational levels, sexual harassment is an important issue. The purpose of this study was to replicate Workman's 1993 article "Extent and Nature of Sexual Harassment in the Fashion Retail Workplace." The same instrument was administered to 144 female clothing and textile students at a large state university. One hundred six participants (73.6%) had experienced at least one incident of sexual harassing behavior. This was consistent with Workman's finding of 73.5%. In the majority of the variables tested, very little had changed between 1993 and 2003.

Key Words: sexual harassment • retailing • retail workplace • fashion retail • merchandising

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 34, No. 1, 7-33 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X05277741


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