We provide a model describing how the narrow prototype of women as having conventionally feminine attributes and identities serves as a barrier to perceiving sexual harassment and appropriately responding to sexual-harassment claims when the victims of harassment do not resemble this prototype. We review research documenting that this narrow prototype of women overlaps with mental representations of sexual-harassment targets. The prototype of women harms women who diverge from this prototype: Their experiences with sexual harassment are less likely to be perceived as such, and they experience more negative interpersonal, organizational, and legal consequences when they experience harassment. Perceptions of sexual harassment are the catalyst by which sexual harassment is recognized and remedied. Thus, narrow gender prototypes may impede the promise and potential of civil rights laws and antiharassment policy.

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性别原型塑造了对性骚扰的看法和反应

我们提供了一个模型，描述了具有传统女性属性和身份的女性的狭隘原型如何成为感知性骚扰的障碍，并在骚扰受害者与该原型不相似时适当地回应性骚扰索赔。我们回顾了研究，这些研究记录了这种狭窄的女性原型与性骚扰目标的心理表征重叠。女性原型伤害了与此原型背道而驰的女性：她们的性骚扰经历不太可能被认为是这样，当她们遭受性骚扰时，她们会经历更多负面的人际、组织和法律后果。对性骚扰的认知是识别和纠正性骚扰的催化剂。因此，