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Abstract
The purpose of this study is to examine gender differences in harassment and bullying and their effect on professional satisfaction in a sample of legal practitioners in California (n = 486). Quantitative data indicate that harassment and bullying significantly decrease the odds of professional satisfaction. As compared to men, women experienced greater professional dissatisfaction, and in particular, harassment and bullying had a greater negative impact on their professional satisfaction. Qualitative data provide a deeper understanding of the respondents’ experiences. Policy implications derived from this research to address workplace harassment and bullying at the macro and micro levels are discussed.
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Notes
1 Hersch and Meyers (Citation2019, p. 932) suggest attrition as an explanation for the lack of a gender difference in satisfaction in some previous studies, stating “those least satisfied leave the legal profession, and those women who stay in legal jobs sort into work environments in which they are relatively satisfied.”
2 Because our dependent variable is a dichotomy, displaying the percentage differentials across IV categories within a DV category is the appropriate statistical technique for examining bivariate relationships (Paternoster & Bachman, Citation2018).