A Modest Proposal to Combat the Problem of Workplace Sexual Assault
More than sixty women have come forward to accuse former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of committing various forms of sexual harassment and assault. He is not the only man in Hollywood doing this, and Hollywood is not the only place that this has happened.
Obviously this rampant sexism is a huge problem in our society. In response to the allegations against Weinstein and others, the #MeTo hashtag has emerged. It is a worldwide movement that has victims of sexual assault and harassment speaking out against the normalization of such behaviors. This movement based around an exclusive club has other people feeling left out and ignored. These people are overwhelmingly
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Obviously, the problem with Harvey Weinstein’s actions is that he was discriminating against male actors by disallowing them the opportunity to earn a promotion through extra-curricular efforts. Contrastly, House of Cards Star, Kevin Spacey, would have paved the way for equal opportunity sexual assault through the attempted molestation of a fourteen year old boy. Unfortunately because Spacey brough pedophilia into the equation I can not condone his actions.
The difference between the exploitation of adults and children is vast and must be taken into account. In addition to allowing more men to be included in the expanding club of sexual assault victims, expanding the range of exploited people will increase opportunity for job creation.
If enough people sleep with their bosses, then we will eventually run out of available jobs to be filled by the most promiscuous workers. The economy must be expanded in order to create the necessary positions and accommodate newly minted workers. The best solution to combating sexism in the workplace is to equalize the gender gap within sexual assault situations by hiring people who are more willing to sleep with men such as heterosexual or bisexual women and homosexual
Last night, my aunt and I watch the presidential campaign, with donald trump and mrs Hillery clinton. Donold trump did'nt do well representing himself in the debut. He acts like a spoiled brat. A person like that cant lead a county like the aUSA, because if they can't get their way, any unnecessary thing can happen. The USA doesn't need to be in anything not wanted. After watching the debut, we talked about the sexual allegations of donald trump and bill crosby. I believe no women was assaulted by any of the men. The power that these men have and a woman that was assaulted by them, why wait 10,20 years to make a report If a women was assaulted she shouldn't wait so long to make a report, became it just make them look bad.Last night, I was
Grass argues emotionally, putting his beliefs before facts. Instead of taking the time to understand the movement, Grass assumes it's to tear down men he deems are innocent and declares that it is not a way of supporting the victims. Grass's evidence to back this is by comparing it to lynching's and narcissism, which is lacking ethical and logical appeal. A quote from Grass backing this is "Assuming guilt before proof isn't a way to support victims - rather, it's a well-known and once often practiced way to promote lynching's with pitchfork-pitching hysteria. Incentivizing the mindless reposting of accusations isn't going to end sexual assault. But it will arouse a mob's groupthink and narcissism," (Grass).
Bill Cosby is one of the most pronounced and well recognized actors of all time. The Cosby Show gave invisible African-Americans representation in what felt like a white-dominated society. Although the fame and recognition, Cosby has “been accused by nearly 60 women of either rape, drug facilitated sexual assault, sexual battery, child sexual abuse, and/or sexual misconduct.” (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) These public allegations have caused previous awards to be revoked, many companies have also disowned Cosby, including actions such as cancelling reruns of his shows. Cosby's legacy shouldn’t go to waste due to the allegations.
The social policy I chose to write about is “Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964” sexual harassment in the workplace. According to equal employment opportunity commission (EEOC), Title VII applies to the company has 15 or more employees including state and local governments. In addition, it also applies to federal government employment agencies and labor organization. Under the law Title VII stated that sexual harassment is unwanted Sexual advances, solicitations for sexual favors, including verbal or physical behavior thought others. “Sexual harassment when this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment” (Facts About Sexual Harassment - EEOC Home Page, 1964). Sexual discrimination or sexual favoritism in the workplace which affects or eliminate other potential candidates its "form of implicit "quid pro quo" harassment and/or "hostile work environment" harassment" (Policy Guidance on Employer Liability under Title VII for ..., 1990). In this essay, I will explain the capabilities and vulnerabilities of the framework as well as analyze the women’s empowerment framework. At the end of my paper, you will have a good understanding how Sex discrimination and work situations environment.
Along with Tarana Burke, incidents of sexual harassment in the workplace also influenced the Me Too movement. Sexual assault and harassment is an embodiment of male-female powerplay. More than a third of female workers (35%) report being sexually harassed at work, explaining why the #MeToo movement is so influential. Women who are traumatized may suffer serious effects from anxiety and on careers.
Have you ever heard about the #MeToo Movement? According to the Metoomvmt, the #MeToo Movement is founded in 2006 by Tarana Burke to help people who survived from sexual violence, particularly young women of color from low wealth communities, find pathways to healing. Using the idea of “empowerment through empathy,” the me too. movement was ultimately created to ensure survivors know they’re not alone in their journey. This movement was a big issue for people in the United States in 2017. TIME Magazine named the “Silence Breakers,” those who spoke out against sexual violence and harassment as part of the viral #MeToo Movement, as its Person of the Year (Metoomvmt). This issue is very important and delicate problem for society in the United
Now some others disagree with the fact that Bill Cosby has sexually abused these women because of the reason that one accusation was actually proven false, this was the accusation made by Andrea Constand. Andrea Constand statement, just like most the others included the drugging and the sexual assault followed after, but in the courtroom Bill Cosby responded to her statement in a manner like their relationship was consensual, which made the side of Cosby seem somewhat believable because of the fact that they had a prior friendship or relationship that had been going forward since then for about a year and a
It seems as though Bill Cosby is losing his team of supporters, just recently ex co-star Joseph C. Phillips came forward stating " of course Bill Cosby is guilty". He said he was troubled when hearing his former idol is being accuse of such inappropriate behavior. Joseph believes he owes who he is now to Bill Cosby, but refuse stand behind a man who does such harmful things to women.
Sexual violence is a common occurrence amongst women around the world. One in three women, ages 18-34, say they have been sexually harassed at work. One out of every six woman in the United States is a victim of an attempted or completed rape- and about 72% of victims report either short or long-term effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The #MeToo movement originated in 2006, and was first used by Tarana Burke to promote “empowerment through empathy” in women of color who had suffered and were victims of sexual abuse and assault. The movement grew in popularity in October of 2017, when Alyssa Milano used the hashtag to reveal the full extent of sexual assault among women. In January of 2018, the Time’s Up movement, in response
Eliminate sexual harassment against women at work, educational institutions and the provision of goods and services.
Sexual harassment in the workplace has become more common in today’s society and both men and women can be victims of sexual harassment in the workplace. “A study conducted showed that out of 20,000 employees surveyed, 42 percent of women and 15 percent of men responded that they had experienced some form of sexual harassment in the workplace” (York, 1989, p. 831). Also, most employee’s do not say anything about the harassment because he/ she feels ashamed or feels that the upper management will not believe his/ her story of the harassment, so many victims stay quiet until he/ she has had enough. Another reason why employees do not come forward when sexual harassment has occurred is because the employee is scared about how the employer will retaliate to his/ her harassment complaint. The EEOC has implemented several laws to protect the employees from discrimination, but these laws also protect the employees from retaliation. Retaliation can occur when an employer punishes an employee from participating in legally protected activity (Miles, Fleming, & McKinney, 2010). It is important to note some important cases in which involved sexual harassment and retaliation and how the ruling
Another big theory is, who was the offender? The offender plays the best roles in sex crimes, people like Robert Buell were just normal person like you and I, compared to R. Kelly, Michael Jackson and even Jared the Subway Guy all received more news coverage than if an Average Joe committed the same act. Still, celebrities like Rob Lowe and Michael Jackson received little to no jail times. In Michael Jackson case hearing, he openly admitted to sharing the same the bed with an underage young boy, still the Media treated him not like a gay pedophile, but as a celebrity that should not be touched. Still to this day, Michael Jackson is not remembered as a gay pedophile who slept in the same bad with children, but as a celebrity icon, they should
Work place policies regarding sexual harassment is the main issue discussed in this article. Sexual harassment has continued to be a challenge within the workplace. According to a recent review of sexual harassment related resolutions, employers have paid over $732,976.00 in sexual harassment fines (Hobson, Szostek, & Fitzgerald, 2015). The EEOC has issued written guidelines for appropriate strategies employers should use to handle workplace sexual harassment and specific ways to address it. It is the employer’s duty to proactively work to protect all employees from any type of sexual harassment by following sexual harassment policies and procedures that are put in place. Failure to implement and follow the policy and procedure in the workplace can and most likely will lead to liability should an EEOC investigation or lawsuit occur. The employer needs to disperse copies of the policies and procedures and post them in central locations throughout the organization and address sexual harassment in the employee handbooks. The policy and procedures need to clear
People refute sexual harassment as an injustice and claim behavior is just a part of human nature. Sexual harassment "…is everywhere, whether it is there or not" (Willis). People who believe this statement add that it is futile to attack behavior that is in the range of normal human response. A theory concerning a man's need to pursue a woman in order to rise from rejection to acceptance in repeated trials is what opposing views claim. Woman also are said to want this type of attention and reject only to stimulate either or both of the two involved. Therefore concluding that sexual harassment is among people in daily situations, and conflicts such as the one exampled, should not target harassers for the over-dramatization of the victim.
Sexual harassment in the workplace is a huge problem in recent history. It can happen to anyone and it can happen everywhere. It can affect all types of races, gender and age. Statistics today shows that more and more sexual harassment has become an issue due to the large number of cases presented. Mainstream media becomes consume covering sexual harassment because of the high profile cases. Sexual harassment becomes a topic on various TV shows, and on some major morning radio talk shows mostly everyday. Sexual harassment laws must be strengthened in order to fix what has become a serious problem today in the workplace.