• *Pic 1.

 

Group members:

Maša

Jasmina

Vita

Ajda

Nika

 

Distributiuon of roles:

• Leader: Ajda
  
• Secretary:  Maša
  
• Progress chaser: Nika
  
• Time-keeper: Jasmina
  
• Reserve persons: Vita 

 

Sexual harassment and unwanted attention in the sphere of work: waiter, waitress    

 

Definition:

Someone`s sex can be seen as an important predictor of their abilities, interests and behavior. Sexual harassment is a form of gender discrimination. The most frequent form of discrimination of women is excessive or unwanted attention in the workplace. Women who are more attractive frequently get better jobs. A big problem in the sphere of work is that some men treat women unprofessionally and unfairly on the basis of their appearance. According to the survey by the Slovenian Public Opinion in 2008, within the International Social Survey 2008, harassment is present in the form of unwanted attention of sexual nature in the Slovenian sphere of work and labour. From 814 respondents there were 37 males and 47 females who had already been victims of unwanted attention of sexual nature at their  workplace. Most people who had suffered that kind of attention were under the age of 30 (Source: Slovenian Public Opinion 2008).

 

Glossary:

1. sexual harassment – spolno nadlegovanje,

2. unwanted attention of sexual nature – nezaželena pozornost spolne narave,

3. molester – nadlegovalec, nadlegovalka,

4. ambiguous remark about the appearance – dvoumna opazka o videzu,

5. sexually suggestive views - spolno sugestivni pogledi,

6. lawsuit claim – tožbeni zahtevek,

7. complainant – pritožnik, pritožnica,

8. accusation – obtožba,

9. employment law – delovno pravo,

10. feminisation of bodies – feminizacija teles.

 

Research questions:

1. What is a definition of work?(Nika)

2. What is a definition of sex? (Nika)

3. What is a definition of sexual harassment? (Vita)
4. Why are in typical women's jobs men more successful than women? (Ajda)

5. Which job dress code is stricter? Men's or women's?(Jasmina)

6. Which gender /sex is more exposed to sexual harassment?(Maša)

7. Do we find unwanted attention of sexual nature on every work place?(Vita)

8. Is there more female or male victims of harassment?(Jasmina)

9. In what prosessions do women suffer the biggest discrimination based on their look? (eg. waitresses) (Nika)

10. How many Slovenian respondents have ever been a victim of sexual harassment?(Ajda)

11. What kind of consequences do victims of sexual harassment suffer?(Jasmina)

12. What can the employer do to protect employees from sexual harassment? (Maša)

13.  How to bring charges against sexual offender?(Maša)

 

 

Literature:

 

• Bartky, Sandra. 2006. Focault, ženskost in modernizacija patriarhalne oblasti. p. 59-86. Delta 12 (1-2): 59-86)
• Bordieu, Pierre (2006): Govorica, spol in simbolno nasilje, Načela za refleksivno družbeno znanost in kritično proučevanje simbolnih dominacij (zbrala in uredula T. Kramberger in D. B. Rotar). Koper: založba Annales

• Hays-Gilpin, Kelley in David s. Whitley. 2000. Arheologija spolov. Ljubljana: ŠKUC.

• Holmes, Mary. 2009. The new sociology. Gender and everyday life. USA and Canada: by Routlege.

•  J.H. Turner in J.E. Stets. 2005. The sociology of emotions. New York: Cambridge University Press
  

• Kozmik, Vera in Razpotnik, Ana. 1999. Za politiko enakih možnosti žensk in moških. Kako se spopasti s spolnim nadlegovanjem na delovnem mestu.Ljubljana: Vlada RS, Urad za žensko politiko.
  

• Oerton, Sarah. 1996. Beyond hierarchy : gender, sexuality and the social economy. London: Taylor & Francis.

• Robnik, Sonja. 2009. (Ne)razumljeni ne?! : Spolno nadlegovanje in nadlegovanje zaradi spola na delovnem mestu. Ljubljana, i2.

• Vijayasiri, Ganga. 2006. Achieving the Objectives of Sexual harassment law: The Importance of the Organizational Context. Law and Society. Chicago:University of Illinois. Accessible on: EBSCO (accessed on March 17 2011)

• WI, Al-Daraji. 2009. An old problem that keeps re-emerging without a clear solution. Internet Journal of Law, Healhcare and Ethics 6 (1). Accessible on: EBSCO (accessed on March 17 2011)
• Business and Professional Women`s foundation. 2009. Crime of Power, Not Passion: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace. Washington, DC. Assessible on: EBSCO (Accessed on March 17 2011)

 

 

 

 

 

MINUTES OF THE 1ST MEETING

»Project based learning«

                                                                          held on 25th of February from 10 – 11 AM  at the FDV library.

 

Present: Nika , Vita , Ajda, Maša, Jasmina

 

Absent: /

 

Agenda:

 

1. Selecting our group name

2. Distribution of roles

3. Any other business

 

Item 1:

Discussion: We were deciding about our team name and Nika suggested the name Lemurs.

Decision: Because we all love animals, we agreed with the name Lemurs.

 

Item 2:

Discussion: We discussed the distribution of roles. We decided on the basis of abilities of our group members.

Decision: Ajda will be the chairperson, Nika will choose the day and time of our meetings, Jasmina will be the minutes taker, Maša and Vita will be taking notes of the meeting.

 

Item 3:

Discussion: We had to decide the time and date of our next meeting.

Decision: We agreed that our next meeting will be on Thursday, 3rd of March at 12 AM at the FDV library.

 

Minutes taker:  Jasmina Drolc

Chairperson: Ajda Šantej

 

MINUTES OF THE 2ND MEETING

»Project based learning«

                                                                               held on 2nd of March from 2-4 PM  at the FDV library.

 

Present: Nika , Vita , Ajda, Maša, Jasmina

 

Absent: /

 

Agenda:

 

1. Dissussion and selection of our topic and title

2. Discussion and selection of 10 research questions

3. Selection of our literature

4. Any other business

 

Item 1:

Discussion: Our PBL project is associated with two other courses: The Sociology of work and Employment and labour market, therefore our topic must be conected with work, gender and sociology. Nika suggested that we could write about how gender influences on work.

Decision: We decided to write about typical gender roles at home and at work.

 

Item 2:

Discussion: Each group member wrote 4 research questions about the topic. We were than discussing which research questions are appropriate for our topic.

Decision: We chose 10 research questions which will be the base for our project.

 

Item 3:

Discussion: We discussed appropriate literature.             

Decision: Each of us look for it in our library.

 

Item 4:

Discussion: We had to decide the time and date of our next meeting. We were deciding on the basis of our free time.

Decision: We agreed that our next meeting will be on Thursday, 10th of March at 12 AM at the FDV library.

 

Minutes taker:  Jasmina

Chairperson: Ajda

 

                                                                                          MINUTES OF THE 3RD MEETING
                                                                                               "project based on earning"
                                                                               held on 8th of March from 4-6 PM at the FDV library.

 

Present: Nika, Vita, Ajda, Maša, Jasmina

Absent: /

Agenda:

1. Discussion and selection of our new topic and title
2. Discussion and selection of 10 new research questions
3. Selection of new liteature
4. Any other business

Item 1:
Discussion: Due to our previous topic was to wide and unconcrete, we have to disscussed a new narowed topic and title. We also did not wanted our topic to be to much similar to topics of other group`s projects. Our new PBL project is stil associated with The Sociology of work and Employment and labour market.
Decision: Due to our topic is conected with work and sexuality  we decided to focus on waiters and harassment on their work place; how waiter/waitress deal with the problem, how gender influences on their work, what are the consequences of victims of the harassment, what can they do about that, etc.

Item 2:
Discussion: During discussion we wrote 19 research questions appropriate for our new topic.
Decision: We chose those we tought were the most appropriate and decided, which pearson will researching which research question.

Item 3:
Discussion: We searched for a new literature; appropiate for our new topic.
Decision: Each of us looked for it in FDV library.

Item 4:
Dicussion: We had to decide the time and date of our next meeting. We were deciding on the basis of our free time.
Decision: We agreed that our next meeting will be on Thusday, 14th of March at 4 PM at the FDV library.

Minutes taker: Nika
Chairpearson: Vita

 

Sources:

*Pic 1: Wikipedia.org, accessible on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lemur_catta_01.jpg (accessed on March 4 2011)

Toš, Niko et al. 2008. Slovensko javno mnenje SJM 2008/1: Evropska raziskava vrednot. Maj 2008. Ljubljana: FDV,  CJMMK