The glass partition: Obstacles to cross-sex friendships at work
研究职场环境和对性骚扰的警惕如何阻碍男女同事建立友谊，基于对41位专业人士的访谈，发现担心被误解为浪漫兴趣或性骚扰等障碍，并讨论了这种“玻璃隔断”对职业发展的影响。
This study explores cross-sex friendships within the professional workplace and examined the impact of the workplace environment and heightened awareness of sexual harassment on cross-sex friendship formation. Results from interviews with 41 professionals suggest the existence of obstacles to developing cross-sex friendships at work. Specifically, these professionals worried that their cross-sex friends would misinterpret their friendliness as romantic or sexual interest, that their co-workers would misinterpret their friendliness to a cross-sex friend, and that their humor and conversational topics might be perceived by a cross-sex friend as sexual harassment. Barriers to cross-sex friendship at work were labeled the ‘glass partition,’ and the potential impact of this glass partition on women's and men's careers is discussed.