Dominic Porras, & Dr. Lindsey Trimble O’Connor
Despite the fact that the issue of sexual harassment is becoming more widely recognized, it impacts women daily. Prior research states that sexual harassment is a way to establish power over women and that women who align themselves with feminism are harassed more. Previous research has examined how one’s likelihood of experiencing harassment is related to one’s gender, race and class, but not, to my knowledge, one’s political party. My research question was: Among women with a Bachelor’s degree or more, what is the effect of political party affiliation on the likelihood of being sexually harassed? I hypothesized that women who are affiliated with the Democratic party are more likely to be sexually harassed than women who are affiliated with the Republican party, this is because I conducted secondary data analysis using PEW Research Center’s 2018 Wave 32 American Trends Panel survey with a sample size of 1,387 women who have a Bachelor’s degree or more, who stated that they have or have not been sexually harassed and were affiliated with either the Democrat or Republican party. I ran a Chi-Square test to see if my hypothesis was correct, to which it was proven true. My finding was that women with a Bachelor’s degree or more who are affiliated with the Democratic Party were sexually harassed more than those affiliated with the Republican Party. The implication of my finding shows that women who align themselves with a party that stands with feminism will be sexually harassed more.