Educator Sexual Misconduct: An Examination of Sanction Disparities Among Texas Female and Male Educators
Date
2022-08
Authors
Ali, Alvi
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Abstract
While educator sexual misconduct (ESM) has garnered much attention in the
media, there have only been a few empirical studies conducted on this topic. Information
is limited because of a lack of standardized reporting policies and limited access to such
data. Moreover, research on ESM has largely focused on male offenders, making it
difficult to assess the sanction differences by sex. Therefore, sanction disparities between
females and males who are accused of ESM are assessed in this research using data from
the Texas Education Agency (TEA) database. It is hypothesized that female educators
will have been given more lenient sanctions than male educators for having engaged in
the same types of acts with students, whereby the findings of this research will show
more support for the chivalry hypothesis than the evil women hypothesis. The results,
however, indicate that there were no statistically significant differences between the
sanctions of female and male educators accused of ESM.
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Educator sexual misconduct, Sex (male/female), Sanctions, Disparities
Citation
Ali, A. (2022). Educator sexual misconduct: An examination of sanction disparities among Texas female and male educators (Unpublished thesis). Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.