Fundraisers’ experiences of sexual harassment
Erynn E. Beaton, Megan LePere-Schloop, and Rebecca Smith, 2021
Fundraisers, who are predominantly female, operate at the boundaries of their organizations as they interact with powerful, mostly male donors and board members attempting to mitigate their organization’s resource dependencies. [Resource dependency theory suggests that those providing resources enjoy power and influence over those dependent upon those resources.] Contexts such as these, where the boundary spanners are predominantly women and the third party tends to be a man of resources, are ripe for sexual harassment.
Bringing together research on resource dependency and sexual harassment leads us to ask ...
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