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Mobbing: emotional abuse at work. (Occupational Hazards).
- Article from:
- Women's Health Collection
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Workplace bullying is reaching epidemic proportions. Mean jokes, put-downs, humiliating treatment are all part of this type of abuse. While men are also affected by psychological harassment, women are by far the favorite target due to the patriarchal culture that favors male abuse of power over women.
It all starts with an apparently banal act: a spiteful comment, a shrug of the shoulders, or a hostile glance. Did the boss or a colleague get up on the wrong side of the bed? Perhaps, but it might also be the first in a long, sick chain of humiliation, abuse and attacks that seek to emotionally unbalance the victim in the hope that she (or he) will finally quit or ...