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Hostile Work Environment
However, a working environment that is unpleasant and frightening for the victim due to sexual advances that have been denied by the victim, is what constitutes hostile work environment sexual harassment.

Workplace Harassment Precedent for the Reasonable Woman
The intricacy of workplace sexual harassment is not well represented by the reasonable woman criterion. It falls under the impression that a ‘reasonable woman’ does not get sexually harassed and work thus creating a hostile workplace but the article goes against the fact that that definition of a ‘reasonable woman’ is not entirely true to reality. The truth is that many women are dealing with hostile workplace environments. It explains court cases that adopted the idea that sexual harassment creates a hostile workplace environment and the other court cases that are showcased in the source of women that have gone up against hostile environment in the workplace created by sexual harassment from their male co-workers. This will help my wiki edits because it is an article that talks about the court case that shifted us from ‘reasonable person’ to ‘reasonable woman’ (Ellison v. Brady, 1991). This case is extremely important because it gave new meaning to the word. The new standard was behavior a reasonable woman would think was extreme enough to change the terms of employment and establish a hostile work environment. This definition brought a lot of change to the way a hostile work environment was beginning to be looked at and I know it is a good source for my wiki page because of this.

Hostile Work Environment Cases
Numerous cases of women who have experience hostile work environments that have caused them to quit or just made them feel uncomfortable that took to court. It is very important to include these cases because it provides evidence and records of the women that have been made invisible in history or that have been erased from the narrative. Hostile work environments exist and many women have been brave enough to stand up against these men in the hostile environments and they deserved to be highlighted for the change they created. One of the cases that stuck out to me when reading this was the Henson v City of Dundee case that found that an employer might be held accountable for creating a hostile work environment if they were aware of sexual harassment occurring at work but did nothing about it or even merely had knowledge of it (Hoffspiegel, 2002). Hostile environment is the most common for of harassment and it is crucial that people understand that this happens more than they think and there are women that have made big waves in changing sexual harassment in the workplace and creating safer workplace environments and culture.

Kyriazi v. Western Electric Company 1978

This case followed a female engineer who was constantly harassed both sexually and for her gender at work and when she complained about it to her supervisor they fired her. The court however, sided with Kyriazi, and made history by being the first to acknowledge that it was considered discriminatory sexual harassment if a workplace was sexually hostile.

Abusive Supervision
Women's leadership has been weakened by men's shared abuse of their masculinity, and a chauvinist and sexist workplace environment, which are fundamental processes that aid in gendered harassment and women's poor performances at their job. Sexual harassment in the work place is sex based and it paints a very clear picture that men who harass women in workplace environments do it to assert positions of power and make the women feel uncomfortable and as though they do not deserve the position they have in the workplace. These actions of harassment in the workplace towards women allows men to feel as though they are powerful and dominant. Men harass both women in power and women without power in work environments, one being because they want to overcompensate for their masculinity and two because they feel threatened by them and want to make them feel lesser than they are. It characterizes the demographics of a workplace that usually create a hostile environment. The social isolations created by men to leave women and men who are more feminine out of office business, jokes, and continue to say really obscene things to them, are all forms of hostile workplace play and abusive supervision especially by men with positions of power working with women without positions of power.

Stereotype Threat and its Role in Workplace Bullying
Being exposed to dangerous workplace situations may lead to the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields. The threatening workplace environment especially for male dominated fields can lead to lots of women not wanting to pursue that field anymore. Stereotype threat is a major form of workplace bullying that hinders women from performing their best at their jobs because of their identity as women (Steele et. al., 2002b).

Despite earning the top percentages of bachelors degrees each year, women are still the most underrepresented in STEM fields and careers because they are being driven away by factors of a hostile work environment. Now the model explained in the article described that because women are aware of the disparity between them and men in these workplace environments, they go into vigilant mode and are hyper aware of their environments especially when seeing the underrepresentation in the field of STEM they are studying, thus creating an identity threat for them. Because they are aware that they are not welcome in those spaces or that it looks like they are not welcome, they begin to think they aren’t welcome and don’t pursue those paths anymore. Some of the factors of a work environment that make it hostile are because of the use of stereotype threat. The hostile comments about women going into STEM as well carry on into the workplace and it fuels the men in those fields to continue to charge the negative remarks about women and bully them about not being able to handle STEM jobs, thus making for some pretty hostile workplace environments.