Gender Harassment and Christian Justification

What is it about?

We know that gender harassment has negative effects on women. This paper focused on whether or not the perceived use of a Christian justification for harassing women (e.g., I think he said women do not make good leaders because of his Christian beliefs) intensifies that negative effect. We call this "Divine Discrimination." We found evidence that attributing episodes of sexuality policing to the Christian belief of the perpetrator potentiated its negative effects at lower levels of harassment.

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Why is it important?

This is the first documentation of Divine Discrimination for college women and sheds light on how conservative Christian beliefs on sex and gender can translate into harassment targeting women.