What is Sexual harassment? Sexual harassment is one of the most difficult and prevalent problems in the workplace. Sexual harassment is defined as unlawful employment discrimination based on one’s sex. Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that violates the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It also applies to employment agencies, labor organizations and the federal government. A victim of sexual harassment may be a woman or a man, limited circumstances the gay and lesbian situations and does not have to be of the opposite sex. The harasser can be the victim’s supervisor, an agent of the employer, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or a non-employee. A victim can be anyone who affected by the offensive conduct. Unlawful conduct may occur with economic injury to or discharge of the victim. Sexual harassing behaviors ranges form an offender making repeated offensive comments to showing pornography to sexual assault.
Through the years it was viewed as female advancements from supervisors, employers and coworkers. Sexual harassment is not just the female gender discrimination issue anymore. The problem is not restricted to the United States but exits throughout the world and across all cultures. In legal terms, Sexual harassment is any unwelcome sexual advance or conduct on the job that creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment. Some of these cases involve homosexual men in high positions attempting to gain sexual favors from heterosexual men in exchanges for promotion or with the threat of being fired. Another fact is that more heterosexual men harass, annoy, tease and threaten homosexual men who are in their employed by them
There are two types of sexual harassment at the ...