Business: Executive Sweet

Many office Romeos are really Juliets

Forget about that scene in the movies when the pin-striped boss looks at the usually prim secretary and exclaims, "Why, Miss Smith—Mary—you have taken off your glasses!" Nowadays, it is likely to be a Ms. who is doing the noticing. The woman boss, once a corseted cliche in man-tailored suits, has begun to win a reputation for eying the boys in the office. That is the conclusion of a study by two U.C.L.A. psychologists, Barbara Gutek and Charles Nakamura, called "Sexuality and the Workplace." Men, they report, have joined women as victims of sexual harassment on...

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