SOC366H1 Lecture Notes - Heterosexuality
Document Summary
Rules against sexual harassment have only recently been institutionalized while the majority of paid labor continues to be either owned and managed by men or sex segregated. When sexualized interactions occur, they are seen to result in negative consequences for employees (especially women employees) and for the organization as a whole. In all three of my fieldwork sites, sexualized comments and behaviors were common, a well-known feature of restaurant work (giuffre and williams 1994). but in my three sites, employee relations at blue. Heron had the highest degree of sexual camaraderie. As detailed below, i explain this finding as a result of the high degree of shared culture among the workers, the relatively flat hierarchy of the organization, and the close coordination required of workers. Most of the sexual jokes and banter at blue heron happened before and after the peak serving periods and were instigated by, and transpired between, the women employees, both lesbian and heterosexual.
