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Sexual harassment of flight attendants not healthy
Sexual harassment from passengers may help explain the poor health of some female flight attendants, reports a new study.
Female flight attendants who were sexually harassed by passengers were almost three times as likely to rate their health as only fair or poor, reported researchers in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Flight attendants in a study of 2,000 women were almost twice as likely to give a low rating to their health if their job satisfaction levels were low. But they were almost three times as likely to do so if they had recently reported sexual harassment by passengers.
About one in five of those working in the industry said they had been sexually harassed by passengers.
Another half of the women in the study said they had been sexually harassed by a colleague or superior.
Sexual harassment in the study was defined as receiving unwanted attention, being propositioned, groped, subjected to offensive remarks about personal appearance or being threatened or blackmailed into non-consensual sexual acts.
“The effect of sexual harassment by passengers on (the) health of flight attendants may be relevant to other working women dealing with the public,” said the authors of the article.
Report by David Wilkening
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