According to a study conducted by Jocelyn Crowley of Rutgers University, participants identified positive aspects of their lives post-gray divorce, including higher levels of overall happiness, liberation from their ex-spouses, and enhanced independence and freedom.
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For Female Fashion Models, Job Security and Sexual Harassment Are Often Intertwined
The “party life,” or informal types of social networking, increases the risk of sexual harassment for women in an industry dominated by powerful men, according to a Rutgers study
The Daily Targum Interviews Dr. Jocelyn Elise Crowley on Her Research on Sexual Harassment in the Fashion Industry
Regarding the implications of her research, Crowley said that individuals must be aware that sexual harassment can happen in places other than on the actual job site. Networking is a significant part of working in the fashion industry, which means that there must be awareness of what happens outside of actual job sites.
Dr. Jocelyn Elise Crowley – The life of the party: Entrepreneurial labor, sexual harassment, and the fashion industry
Dr. Crowley’s study uses qualitative content analysis to map out how the party life leads to incidents of sexual harassment with both personal and professional consequences for fashion models using 20 distinct narratives.
Are Men Left Behind? The Gender Gap at All NJ Colleges, Universities
New Jersey colleges and universities have seen an average of 40,000 more women than men as undergraduates over just a five-year span ending last fall. Years of enrollment data show that NJ has been part of a nationwide, decades-long trend of notably more female...
Dr. Jocelyn Elise Crowley – Bystander Behavior and Sexual Harassment: The Case of the Fashion Industry
Dr. Crowley’s analysis revealed that while some bystander victim–alliance behavior occurred in the forms of verbal objections and a strong physical presence to thwart perpetrators, bystander facilitation of perpetrator abuse was much more common.
Dr. Crowley discusses the reasons behind divorce after the age of 50
With more opportunities to divorce more often than other groups with lower initial divorce rates, gray divorce has been growing as boomers age. Remarriages have a 2.5 times greater risk of divorce than first marriages, Brown says. Disagreements over...
Get Financial Advice Before Your Divorce
For women who have left the workforce to care for children or scaled back to a part-time job, the consequences of not paying into Social Security may leave them in a financial bind, says Jocelyn Elise Crowley, a professor of public policy at Rutgers University in New...
Research – Crowley publishes “Challenging gendered power: How sexual harassment perpetrators respond to victim confrontation”
A recent article written by Dr. Jocelyn Elise Crowley dispels a significant sexual harassment myth that victims working within the fashion industry culture are able to stop perpetrators simply by speaking up and/or fighting back.
Research: How independent contractors respond to sexual harassment in the modeling industry
Jocelyn Elise Crowley, Ph.D. looks at the vulnerabilities of people, mostly women, working in the modeling profession, examining the issue of sexual harassment and models’ response to it in the absence of workplace protections.
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