Sev Er's Article On The Mainstream Neglect Of Sexual Harassment As A Social Problem?

Summary of Article
Sev’er’s article on the Mainstream Neglect of Sexual Harassment as a Social Problem discusses the absence of published articles about sexual harassment in the US and Canada. She goes on to discuss some reasons for the absence, as well as the problems that may arise from this absence along with some details about the impact of sexual harassment. Gender based studies publication are experiencing a “Gatekeeper” effect with reviewers and editors (Sev 'er, A. 1996). From her information drawn from multiple sources, it is shown that sexual harassment is still a prominent social issue that isn’t getting the attention that it needs.
Sev’ er talked about the connotative views and social constructs of sexual harassment as a social

She referenced a number of articles that have empirical data that shows that sexual harassment is a major prominent social problem and not many articles in mainstream publication are about sexual harassment, gender issues, and working women. Firstly, Sev’ er referenced the Canadian Human Right Annual report in 1991 as showing that 37% of women believed they’ve been sexual harassed and a study conducted in 1981 showed that 92% of women in a trade study felt they have been sexually harassed well working. Secondly, she analysed the number of articles published that address sexual harassment and related issues, as well as sent out a surveys to 24 authors that were listed on those articles for referral to other articles that have been published. Her evidence showed not a single mainstream article about sexual harassment, in Canada, has been published in 9 years (back before 1996) (Sev 'er, A. 1996, pg. 7). Non-scientific methods (socially assumed logic) and comments about publication were used as the explanation to why editorials weren’t publishing the

As written in the text book, sexual harassment is, “comments, gestures, or physical contacts of a sexual nature that are deliberate, repeated, and unwelcome” (Macionis, J. J., Jansson, M. S., Benoit, M. C. 2012. page 268). Sexual harassment was noted in the article and text book as being a social problem that can be hampering to one’s job performance and quality of life. Also mentioned, as social structure goes, people are afraid of the repercussions of it, and what will happen if something is done about it. As mentioned in the article by CBC news, some female Mounties are concerned that they’re not being heard when sexual harassment happens in the workplace. The RCMP almost has a patriarchy or glass ceiling effect where women are not taken seriously, and the higher ranked men can do what they want without any serious repercussions. If a complaint was serious enough, the men would just transfer or get promoted to avoid the issue all together (Female Mounties still fear reporting harassment,