If a man touches a cocktail waitress on the rear, he can expea a lawsuit — even though she’s making tips from getting him drunk. But had fans touched Elvis Presley on the rear while he was walking down the street at night in his stage outfit and Elvis had sued the fans, he would […]

ITEM While I was working on Why Men Are the Way They Are at a University of California library tr San Diego. I heard some panting from a nearby office. Of course. I refrained from looking (!). but it |ust so happened that the curtain was left slightly open (ah. for the slippage of spontaneity), […]

Sexual blackmail A boss threatens tofire an employee unless she or he is sexual. If, for example, a male vice-president threatens to fire a female secretary unless she has sex with him, it is in the company’s best interest to get rid of him. Why? If a vice-president is willing to get rid of someone […]

Sexual harassment legislation increases the price of hiring women and therefore gives employers a legitimate reason to discriminate against women. A friend of mine who ran one of the largest research firms in California let go a woman who was unable to get along with most of the employees. A few weeks later, she sued […]

A female navy psychologist tells her female plebes that the question "Why did you come to the U. S. Naval Academy?" is a classic example of sexual harassment when a man asks tf.26 Psychology Today applauded this approach.27 Yet one has to ask whether this level of sensitivity contributes to the 50 percent higher attrition […]

First, both sexes tell dirty jokes Even as the mostly male Congress had passed legislation to allow dirty jokes to constitute a hostile environment, female members of Congress were circulating male-bashing humor 24 Example? “What’s the difference between government bonds and men?” "Bonds mature " This was permitted But had the men asked, “What’s the […]

Women especially say it is important to get to know someone before having sex with them. The workplace gives a woman the opportunity to observe a man — how he handles people above him and below him, his competence, his temper, his ethics, values, habits For most women, it works a lot better than bars […]

When I ask women in my audiences who had entered the workplace when single and later gotten married to "raise your hand if you married a man you met at work (or through a workplace contact — a client, or someone to whom you were a client)," almost two thirds raised their hands.21 Another 15 […]

Many women ask, "What’s the big deal with a miniskin, perfume, and a little flining in the workplace?" It would not be a big deal for most men if no one were making a big deal of the man’s response. It is a big deal, though, for the woman — if her goal is to […]

Believe it or not, this is still not the core of what bothers most men. What is? First, men still see women playing their old sexual games. And second, men do not see sexual harassment legislation requiring women to take respoas — ibility for their games. For example, the magazine read by the largest number […]