From: Meredith Glueck at EDF on 06/17/98 01:41 PM
Subject: Re: Jobs and gender (was: Gender, Race, and Publishing on the
Left)
A male boss harassing a female clerk usually does not intend to exclude in any way females from clerical positions. All he wants is a sexual favor from a particular individual.
I would suggest that this too is not so much about sexual favors but instead about power. No, the male boss is not trying to exclude other women from clerical positions, but in this way of intimidation, is in a sense describing that women in clerical positions have no power and through harassment prevents any sense of mobility. He has the power, she does not.