Digitalization of Workplace Harassment Against White-Collar Women: An Investigation in Professional Online Platforms

Özge Nur Kocabaşoğlu; Özen Baş; Perrin Öğün Emre

doi:10.26466/opusjsr.1344239

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Digitalization of Workplace Harassment Against White-Collar Women: An Investigation in Professional Online Platforms

Abstract

Sexual harassment against women is one of the important social problems addressed all over the world. It is a fact that has existed for hundreds of years, although the place and types of it change. Harassment has been transferred to the digital environment, as everything has become digital with the Internet. It is claimed that women are subjected to harassment while working or looking for a job. To investigate the prevalence of workplace harassment and harassment on online platforms used for professional purposes and its psychological effects on victims, an online nonprobability sampling survey on 245 white-collar women aged 20-40 working in the private sector was conducted. The results suggest that the harassment that women are most exposed to is cyber harassment. It has been observed that 73 women out of every hundred have been subjected to harassment on professional digital platforms. In the types of harassment experienced, persistent online dating requests, receiving unwanted romantic messages, sexual jokes and insults are the most common types of harassment. It has been revealed that the psychological and physiological effects of physical abuse are also seen in victims of cyber harassment.

Keywords

cybersexual harassment againts women , workplace harassment , digitalization , social media , survey

Beyaz Yakalı Kadın Çalışanlara Karşı İş Yeri Tacizinin Dijitalleşmesi: Profesyonel Çevrimiçi Platformlar Üzerine Bir Araştırma

Öz

Kadına yönelik cinsel taciz, tüm dünyada ele alınan önemli toplumsal sorunlardan biridir. Gerçekleştiği ortam ve türleri değişse de yüzyıllardır var olan bir gerçektir. İnternetle birlikte her şeyin dijitalleştiği gibi taciz de dijital ortama taşınmıştır. Kadınların çalışırken veya iş ararken tacize uğradığı iddia ediliyor. Mesleki amaçlarla kullanılan çevrimiçi platformlarda ve işyerinde yaşanan taciz, tacizin yaygınlığını ve mağdurlar üzerindeki etkilerini araştırmak için, özel sektörde çalışan 20-40 yaş arası beyaz yakalı 245 kadın ile anket çalışması yapılmıştır. Araştırmanın sonuçlarına göre kadınların en çok maruz kaldıkları taciz siber tacizdir. Her yüz kadından 73'ünün profesyonel dijital platformlarda tacize uğradığı gözlemlenmiştir. Yaşanan taciz türlerinde; ısrarlı çevrimiçi flört talepleri, mağdurun reddetmesine karşı devam eden, istenmeyen romantik mesajlar almak, cinsel ve tehdit içerikli şakalar ve hakaretler en yaygın taciz türleridir. Fiziksel istismarın psikolojik ve fizyolojik etkilerinin siber taciz mağdurlarında da görüldüğü ortaya çıkmıştır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

kadına karşı siber taciz , iş yeri tacizi , dijitalleşme , sosyal medya , anket

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Sosyal Medya Çalışmaları , Yeni Medya

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yazarlar

Özge Nur Kocabaşoğlu ^*
0000-0001-5133-4359
Türkiye

Özen Baş
Türkiye

Perrin Öğün Emre
Türkiye

Erken Görünüm Tarihi

30 Eylül 2023

Yayımlanma Tarihi

29 Eylül 2023

Gönderilme Tarihi

16 Ağustos 2023

Kabul Tarihi

4 Eylül 2023

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2023 Cilt: 20 Sayı: 55

DOI

https://doi.org/10.26466/opusjsr.1344239

IZ

https://izlik.org/JA93GP64LB

APA

Kocabaşoğlu, Ö. N., Baş, Ö., & Öğün Emre, P. (2023). Digitalization of Workplace Harassment Against White-Collar Women: An Investigation in Professional Online Platforms. OPUS Journal of Society Research, 20(55), 657-670. https://doi.org/10.26466/opusjsr.1344239

Digitalization of Workplace Harassment Against White-Collar Women: An Investigation in Professional Online Platforms

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Beyaz Yakalı Kadın Çalışanlara Karşı İş Yeri Tacizinin Dijitalleşmesi: Profesyonel Çevrimiçi Platformlar Üzerine Bir Araştırma

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