Sexual Harassment in Sport
Kari Fasting, Norway
The paper starts with a discussion about he definitions of sexual
harassment,
and lists examples of sexual harassment in sport. It further presents the
consequences of sexual harassment for the victim, the harasser and the
sport organizations. This continues into the overview of the research on
sexual harassment in sport. It shows that very little sport-specific date
on incidence and prevalence of harassment is available. There are no
studies
in existence that compares athletes with non-athletes, nor have we found
any studies that have surveyed the athletes experience inside/outside of
sport. This paper reports finding from 660 elite female athletes and an
equivalent sample from a normal population. The results showed that a
larger
proportion ofnonathletes that athletes have experienced a form of sexual
harassment frompeople outside rather than inside sport. However, higher
percentages of athletes experienced sexual harassment from an authority
figure.
This paper concludes with a
discussion
about methods of combating sexual harassment in sport, such as policy,
advocacy, and practical actions.
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