Panes of the Glass Ceiling Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2022
The belief that women in the workplace should simply toughen up and “take bullying like a man,” though largely unexpressed, helps to obscure a major reason that many women find themselves disadvantaged at work and even prematurely winnowed out of their workplace. As will be discussed, status-neutral bullying is wholly lawful everywhere in the United States, except for Puerto Rico, which, just in the summer of 2020, passed the Act to Prohibit and Prevent Workplace Harassment in Puerto Rico, which prohibits status-blind bullying in the workplace that is “malicious[,] … unwanted, repetitive and abusive, arbitrary, unreasonable or capricious, not related to legitimate business interests, and that infringes on constitutionally protected rights, such as the protection against attacks to the employee’s reputation or private life, among others.”
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