"Cpl. Catherine Galliford was the face of the B.C. RCMP for years."
Galliford says she faced constant sexual advances from several senior officers from the moment she graduated from the RCMP Academy in 1991.
"It just got to the point that after I had about 16 years of service, I broke. I completely broke."
Female flight attendants who have been sexually harassed by passengers are almost three times as likely to rate their health as only fair or poor, reveals research in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
The health of other women working regularly with the public may be similarly jeopardised, suggest the authors.
A new study suggests the abuse of power can lead to sexual harassment, especially in the workplace. Particularly, in the hands of the wrong person, power can be dangerous. However, the definition and interpretation of power varies by gender and workplace roles. -- Issues of power, workplace culture and the interpretation of verbal and non-verbal communication associated with sexual harassment were the focus of a study by Debbie Dougherty, at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Working with a large healthcare organization in the Midwest, Dougherty examined the question: why does sexual harassment occur? -- “Power,” she said.
Harassment in the workplace goes well beyond 9 to 5 and often goes unreported, as most people are still afraid to file suit.
People who reported having little or no social support from their co-workers were 2.4 times more likely to die during the course of the study than those who said they had close, supportive bonds with their workmates.
HLN's Joy Behar talks with reporter Ines Sainz about whether she was sexually harassed by members of NY Jets.
A Long Island doctor is accused of sexually harassing three former employees for months on end.
A former employee of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church has filed a lawsuit against the Atlanta megachurch, alleging its employees retaliated against her after she complained of sexual harassment.
Sexual harassment may have become so commonplace for women that they have built up resistance to harassing behavior they consider merely "bothersome," suggests a provocative new study by Michigan State University researchers. "When women view sexual harassment as bothersome, it doesn't seem to be associated with distress," "In some ways this suggests that sexual harassment is such a widespread problem that women have figured out ways to deal with it so it doesn't interfere with their psychological well-being."
Researchers found that adolescents from Latin American and Asian backgrounds experienced more discrimination than their peers from European backgrounds and that the discrimination came not only from other adolescents but from adults as well. -- The level of discrimination also impacted these teens' grade-point averages and their health and was associated with depression, distress and lower levels of self-esteem.
Just as the constant pressure soldiers face on the battlefield can follow them home in the form of debilitating stress, African Americans who face chronic exposure to racial discrimination may have an increased likelihood of suffering a race-based battle fatigue, according to Penn State researchers.
Employees at the Transportation Security Administration say new rules are preventing female agents from advancing. WSMV's Josh Devine reports. (NBC News)
Researchers from UCLA and the State University of New York-Stony Brook found that out-of-work Americans face [discrimination] that is unrelated to their skills sets or to the conditions of departure from their previous jobs.
"We were surprised to find that, all things being equal, unemployed applicants were viewed as less competent, warm and hireable than employed individuals,"
"We were also surprised to see how little the terms of departure mattered. Job candidates who said they voluntarily left a position faced the same stigma as job candidates who said they had been laid off or terminated."
"To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine the psychological stigma of unemployment,"
An Arab waiter at the famed Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City, is suing the establishment because he says he was forced to wear different name tags to keep from frightening guests. Mohamed Kotbi and his attorney, Joseph Killada join msnbc’s Thomas Roberts to discuss.
The world is faced with stigma and [discrimination] that can lead to violence and block the AIDS response. This impacts the lives of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people.
Challenging traditional views of workplace anger, a new article by a Temple University Fox School of Business professor suggests that even intense emotional outbursts can prove beneficial if responded to with compassion.
With 11 police officers shot this week, one expert calls it "the most dangerous 24-hour period I've ever seen."
A 31-year-old man dies in police custody after being Tased four times. HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell reports.
Police say two female postal workers have been shot and killed in a Tennessee post office shooting.
One possible hidden cause in some cases for people going "berserk" or becoming enraged is psychological harassment or criminal psychological harassment.
- Provocation can quickly lead to anger or the fight-or-flight syndrome.
- Humiliation can lead to rage. (rage shootings)
In Session's Vinnie Politan reports on a vicious teen trend in Florida.
Homelessness and cancer are 2 methods of getting rid of someone in an invisible fashion by organized crime and linked to suffering or setting an example.