Mobbing, tokenizam, seksualno uznemiravanje žena na radnom mjestu
Mobbing, Tokenism, Sexual Harassment of Women at the Work Place

Summary/Abstract: The author has based her reflection on women and the phenomena of mobbing, tokenism and sexual harassment at work place on the comparison of current international studies and the results of the research conducted in Zagreb 2002. She defines mobbing or mental harassment at work place as a form of aggressive emotional abuse aiming at the victim's personality. The research has shown that mobbing significantly appears in all professions, all age groups, both men and women, who are obviously the primary aims of harassment. Some studies show that the risk of being mobbed is by 75% greater in women than in men. Sexual allusions negatively influence one's mental and physical health and working abilities, since they represent a psyhosocial factor influencing the level growth of negative stress at work the same way a situation does when we do work that we value irrelevant and we are not proud of it. This happens more often with women, especially if they in decision-making positions. These influential women are also more liable to marginalization or tokenism, which are connected with positions that represent power and decisions. Firms and institutions prefer men to women when looking for new employees, which could often be seen in public advertisments. Those women who manage to come to a job interview are disqualified because of their marital status, age (35 and more), regardless of their fulfillment of all conditions for that work place. Due to this, they are forced to accept less attractive and paid jobs, or to sign contracts with annexes like "I will not stay pregnant", etc. Women approximately earn 15% less than their male colleagues at the same work place and with the same characteristics. Women in better-paid positions are even more discriminated than their women colleagues in less-paid occupations. The difference between women and men on lower earning levels is 10%, while on higher earning levels it reaches 20%.

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