Table of Contents
Introduction
The Game: What You're Up Against and Why You Need a Game Plan 1
Chapter 1 Knowing the Score: Your Instincts, Uphill Battle, and Inner Bawse 7
Chapter 2 The Truth We'd Rather Not See: What Is Sexual Harassment and Why Does It Happen? 18
Chapter 3 Harassholes and Targets: Identifying Harassers, Who Gets Harassed, and Knowing When You're Harassed 34
Chapter 4 Recon Like Ronan: Determining Whether an Employer Is a Sexual Harassment Hotbed 55
Chapter 5 NSFW Coworkers: Identifying and Avoiding Toxic Colleagues 74
Chapter 6 Paying the Price: The Costs of Sexual Harassment to Employers and to You 95
Chapter 7 Keeping Receipts: Documenting Sexual Harassment, Preserving Evidence, and Building a Record 108
Chapter 8 Responses and Reporting: How Sexual Harassment Gets Handled 130
Chapter 9 The Stress and the Struggle: Understanding the Psychological Impact of Sexual Harassment 156
Chapter 10 The Head Game Plan: A Strategy for Surviving the Psychological Impact of Sexual Harassment 169
Chapter 11 Legal Claims and Defenses: An Overview of Sexual Harassment Law 186
Chapter 12 Legal Ratchet and Lawyering Up: Insight into Retaliation, Remedies, and Great Counsel 201
Chapter 13 Keeping Up Appearances: Managing Your Public Persona and Leveraging the Media 223
Chapter 14 Surviving Cyber Scandal: Overcoming Online Harassment and Digital Warfare 241
Chapter 15 Leveling Up: Embracing the New You, Always Doing You, and Making a Badass Comeback 250
Conclusion Taking the Lead 260
Acknowledgments 263
Notes 265
Index 279
