{"id":3404,"date":"2018-02-24T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2018-03-02T01:44:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T01:44:38","slug":"men-and-women-are-equally-exposed-to-verbal-harassment-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/men-and-women-are-equally-exposed-to-verbal-harassment-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Men and Women Are Equally Exposed to Verbal Harassment at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verbal abuse and other forms of non-sexual harassment are more common in the workplace than you might realize.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-two percent of women and 28% of men say they have been verbally abused or severely harassed in a non-sexual way by their boss at their current job, according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/all\/all-departments\/151-have-you-been-verbally-abused-or-severely-harassed-non-sexual-by-your-boss-at-your-current-job\">ongoing query<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\">Comparably<\/a>. The data comes from the responses of nearly 5,000\u00a0people, predominantly in tech jobs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/151-have-you-been-verbally-abused-or-severely-harassed-non-sexual-by-your-boss-at-your-current-job\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3405 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/cl.jpg\" alt=\"cl\" width=\"479\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/cl-300x30.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/cl.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 85vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Most affected: People in communications.\u00a0<\/b>Women and men\u00a0in communications say they have been subjected to verbal harassment or non-sexual harassment, the most of any department (49% and 42% respectively). Women in engineering (42%) and admin (41%) also had high rates. Thirty-five percent of men in finance say they have been subjected to verbal harassment or non-sexual harassment; that was the second highest rate after communications.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3406 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/lauren.jpg\" alt=\"lauren\" width=\"537\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/lauren-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/lauren.jpg 537w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 85vw, 537px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3407 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/marketing2.jpg\" alt=\"marketing2\" width=\"536\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/marketing2-300x73.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/marketing2.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 536px) 85vw, 536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>40% of African Americans say they have been victims of this behavior.\u00a0<\/b>Forty\u00a0percent of African Americans say they have been subjected to verbal and other forms of harassment, the most of any ethnic group. The rate was lowest among Asian\/Pacific Islanders (26%). Note: Figures are for women and men combined.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3408 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/auug.png\" alt=\"auug\" width=\"492\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/auug-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/auug.png 492w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 85vw, 492px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>The youngest most affected.\u00a0<\/b>Thirty-nine percent of workers 18 to 25 say they have been subjected to verbal and other forms of harassment, the most of any age group. The lowest rates were among workers 51 to 55 (27%). Note: Figures are for women and men combined.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3410 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/delay.jpg\" alt=\"delay\" width=\"373\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/delay-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/delay.jpg 373w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 373px) 85vw, 373px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest reading of the survey was Feb. 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verbal abuse and other forms of non-sexual harassment are more common in the workplace than you might realize. Thirty-two percent of women and 28% of men say they have been verbally abused or severely harassed in a non-sexual way by their boss at their current job, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/men-and-women-are-equally-exposed-to-verbal-harassment-at-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3414,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions\/3414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}