Marianne Cooper writes of The 3 Things That Make Organizations More Prone to Sexual Harassment: “typical of the sort of organization that researchers have found to be particularly prone to sexual harassment and abuse: male dominated, super hierarchical, and forgiving when it comes to bad behavior.”
Cooper’s full article is well worth reading, but her reduction here to three key characteristics of internally abusive organizations (domination of one group, a top-down structure, and exculpation of wrongdoing by those from the dominant group) seems spot-on.