An interdisciplinary approach to understanding social sexual conduct at work

The authors reviewed the most recent U.S. Supreme Court holdings regarding sexual harassment (SH) and compared them to legal commentators' calls for r eform in the law. Because the courts have ignored empirical evidence, and a greement among social forces is lacking, the judiciary has been unable to s end a unified message to regulate social sexual misconduct at work. This an alysis of recent social science research suggests that the a more thorough understanding of the fundamentals of SH law is needed. The authors' psychol egal analysis of SH policy adopts the interdisciplinary point of view calle d social analytic jurisprudence. They summarized some of the empirical find ings guided by that perspective and concluded with a set of empirical resea rch questions, the answers to which bring one a more interdisciplinary unde rstanding of social sexual conduct at work.