Giovana Lopez, & Dr. Lindsey Trimble O’Connor
Occupational sex segregation—the underrepresentation (or overrepresentation) of a sex in a certain occupation—affects women’s experiences in jobs, including sexual harassment and discrimination. How does sex composition in an occupation affect women’s experiences with workplace bullying? I hypothesize that women will experience more workplace bullying in a female-dominated occupation than women in a male-dominated occupation. I conducted a secondary data analysis of the 2012 General Social Survey, and I restricted my sample to 1,089 female respondents, not including those in military branches. I estimated Pearson’s Correlation Coefficients to look for a relationship between the percentage of female workers in an industry and women’s experiences with bullying, but I found no support for my hypothesis. I found that women experience fewer bullying characteristics as more women are present in an occupation. Contrary to my hypothesis, this study shows that women experience more workplace bullying in a male dominated occupation with no statistical significance.