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Introduction
Scholars are long emphasizing on the role of organizational practices in constraining
career-related outcomes of women and shedding light on the implications of gendered role
expectations. However, the organizational background related to women’s experiences on the job
associated to sexual aggravation obtained insignificant amount of attention (Fitzgerald et al.
2017). Nelson, Debra and Burke (2018) state that sexual harassment undertakes several forms
such as receiving derogatory sexist comments, hostile working environment through odd
gestures, sexually oriented elements and even forced sexual contact resulting to severe
consequences at workplaces. The following essay will evaluate the grave implications of sexual
harassment at workplaces in Canada with elevated level of psychological and physical tension;
reduced contentment with work. In addition to this the paper will propose social initiatives in
order to condense the social problem faced by working women at organizational contexts.
Discussion
The critical character of perspective in social or communal life entails necessity regarding
a theoretical standpoint on sexual harassment which further takes into consideration its
significant organizational groundwork (Mclaughlin et al. 2017). However, in the view of
Fitzgerald et al. (2017), although individuals tend to act out, they perform in that manner within
the organizational context. These illicit acts critically gave a collective liability not only by
modern social scholars but furthermore by sufferers as well as courts of law. Schultz (2018)
posits that institutions are established within the wider range of sociocultural setting involving
patriarchy as well as invasive gender socialization which prime individuals in proceeding and
receiving sexual harassment at workplace. According to Mcdonald and Charlesworth (2016),
men typically refer to the socio-cultural prospects in shaping the sense of their feelings which are

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correct for women and ways in order to associate with the women in an organizational context.
Similarly it was noted that women who encounter acts of sexual harassment may refer to the
widespread as well as existing norms and to their point in the patriarchal societal arrangement in
determining whether and ways to advance (Schultz 2018). However, as per the view of Holland
et al. (2015), sociocultural realties are crucial in comprehending the social conditions for sexual
harassment; workplace elements are regarded as important determinants of its frequency and
appearance. Furthermore, in other words, patriarchy along with forms of gender socialization
aids to elucidate the intellectual groundwork fundamental to sexual harassment as well as
reactions of sufferers. But Miner and Cortina (2016) claim that organizational context
fundamentally rules whether and the way sexual harassments actually emerge in a given place of
work.
Reports by Mcdonald and Charlesworth (2016) reveal that Canada is acknowledging the
psychological harm resulting from poisoned organizational environment as a ‘term or condition’
of employment. Furthermore, Schultz (2018) recognize the merit if these assertions highlighted
acts of sexual harassment as a discriminatory condition of employment even if it does not be
consequential to detrimental employment outcomes. At this juncture, Nelson, Debra and Burke
(2018) state three sources of power which had significant impending repercussions for sexual
harassment related to self-regulation, official grievance procedures along with job insecurity.
Furthermore, power discrepancies emerging from employees’ relative significance in the labour
development had the propensity to safeguard some workers from acts of sexual persecution
while portraying others further in danger. However the overriding conjecture speculates that
subordinated organizational arrangements of women tend to condense their authority in
association with potential harassers, further signifying them to be highly susceptible or in risk to