The impact of sexual harassment on women's health and well‐being

The sexual harassment of women in the casino gaming industry is pervasive and normative, yet the study of harassment and women's employment in this industry remains critically understudied. In this article, I argue the casino gaming industry is an opportune research setting in which to observe the adverse health outcomes and health disparities of workplace sexual harassment. Gaming demonstrates two salient organizational characteristics: (1) a historically male‐dominated, overtly‐sexualized culture that is primed for sexual harassment; and (2) a highly diverse, predominantly immigrant and minority workforce. As such, studying sexual harassment in the gaming industry may help in gaining key theoretical insights into who is more likely to a be target of sexual harassment; the forms in which harassment manifests (gendered, racialized, and class‐based); and who is more likely to experience its adverse health and job‐related outcomes. As more studies are warranted to disentangle the complexity of gender, race, class, citizenship status, and power in sexual harassment, and these factors intersecting and multiplying impacts on women's health and well‐being, I recommend linking the literature on sexual harassment and health with the gaming‐hospitality literature

Citizenship · Harassment · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Workforce · Gender Studies · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology · Workplace Violence and Bullying

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