Sexual Harrassment in the Workplace

What is sexual harassment? Sexual harassment is a form of sexual discrimination

that violates the rights of an individual. Prevention is the best tool to eliminate sexual

harassment in the workplace. Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual nature

constitutes sexual harassment when the conduct explicitly or implicitly affects the

individual’s employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work performance,

or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment. Although power is central

to a supervisor’s harassment is subordinate; it is wrong, it is against the law, and

individuals should not have to deal with it. It puts the individual in an uncompromising

situation and that individual feel defined.

Despite the widespread publicity about the perils of sexual harassment, surveys

demonstrate that many businesses operating in the United States have yet to address the

problem. Moreover, recent news reports indicate that sexual harassment has reached the

high-test level of management. Although businesses know it exists, they appear unsure

what to do about it. As a result, the specter of employer liability for sexual harassment

continues to loom over the workplace.

A manager/supervisor in a higher position may see the need to sexually harass an

for many different reasons. One, an employee may have the same credentialing as the

manager and he/she may see that as a threat to them and their job. This can make the

employee feels shallow and very unimportant. The manager may have an unprofessional

attraction to the employee and feel that they can approach the employee without him/her

saying anything, because they hold a higher position.

Power is also another reason why one may be sexually harassed in the work place

by a manager, by one who holds a higher position, or by another employee or individual.

Some individuals use power as a weapon or tool to get one to do what he/she wants them

to do. Power can also be used as a threat as well. The harasser may want one to do

things that are not related to one’s job duties. This may create a problem and may make

the situation even worse.

This is a small list that I have created of examples of sexual harassment situations:

• A supervisor implies to an employee that the employee must sleep with him to keep a job.

• A sales clerk makes demeaning comments about female customers to his coworkers.

• An office manager in a law firm is made uncomfortable by lawyers who regularly tell sexually explicit jokes.

• A cashier at a store pinches and fondles a coworker against her will.

• A secretary's coworkers belittle her and refer to her by sexist or demeaning terms.

• Several employees post sexually explicit jokes on an office intranet bulletin board.

• An employee sends emails to coworkers that contain sexually explicit language and jokes.

There are many different conducts of sexual harassment. There is verbal, visual

or physical sexual natures that may be considered sexual harassment. This is

incorporated by unwelcome behavior this is sever or persuasive. Verbal comments can

be about your clothing, personal body comments, or sex-based jokes. Physical