{"id":3378,"date":"2007-05-16T06:42:34","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/16\/its-always-the-womans-fault\/"},"modified":"2007-05-16T06:42:34","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T14:02:22","slug":"its-always-the-womans-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3378","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s always the woman&#039;s fault&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sent me a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/stuff.co.nz\/4058840a19716.html\">the local paper<\/a> the heading said: <b>Don&#8217;t want to be harassed? Stop acting like a man<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The blurb said <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Behaving like &#8220;one of the boys&#8221; to get ahead at work may not be the best strategy for women. A study had found that alpha-females are more likely to suffer sexual harassment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The actual research said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The more women deviated from traditional gender roles &#8211; by occupying a &#8216;man&#8217;s&#8217; job or having a &#8216;masculine&#8217; personality &#8211; the more they were targeted,&#8221; Dr Berdahl said. &#8220;Although having a masculine personality would seem to help employees fit into male-dominated work environments, having such a personality appears to have hurt the women in this study.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said the study supported the theory that sexual harassment was motivated by a desire to punish &#8220;gender-role deviants&#8221; rather than by sexual desire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sent me a link from the local paper the heading said: Don&#8217;t want to be harassed? Stop acting like a man The blurb said Behaving like &#8220;one of the boys&#8221; to get ahead at work may not be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3378\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-poverty-labor-related-issues","category-feminism-sexism-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}