Incidence of harassment of women in the workplace

Abstract

Work place harass mentis generated with in today's society, as one of the expressions of violence that arises as a consequence of the abuse of power by certain individuals who, being placed in higher positions, use the mechanisms to meett heir personal needs, with out import the psychological consequences that will cause the victim. Objective of this research is to determine the incidence of harass men to fwomen in the work place, identify the prevalence of the type of harass ment and analyze the emotional stateof the victim of harassment; Methodology used was from a quantitative and qualitative approach, of descriptive, exploratory, cross-sectional type. Through a questionnaire validated by experts, and anin-depth interview that helps measure the variables understudy. Results, 60% of women surveyed have suffered from work place harassment, due to over work against their will. On the other hand, it was analyzed that the predominant harassment is the “psychological” one. The emotions manifested with greater intensity were: anger and anxiety. Conclusions. The statistics on harassment in our country are on therise, a comparison is made with previous statistics and it is confirmed that the harassment of mentowards women in this are aispsychological, mostly they do not reach aggression. But the intimidations produce psychic affections and affect the productivecapacity, with collateral effects in thefamily of the victims.