Entertainment Industry: Sexual Assault And Sexual Harassment

However, the awareness of this issue can benefit the audience. The audience for this play is most likely high school students, college students and parents as well. In this modern day use of social media with the youth of this society, it is more than likely this is the perfect audience for this play. First, the audience is able to recognize that misconception about various groups in the society and in schools. High school and college students of today face a wide variety of critics and ordeals on school campuses. This play depicts the same issues that occurs in these institutions and enables the audiences to be aware of this issue of sexual assault. This play raises so many vital and sensitive questions in regards to the issue of sexual assault which makes the audiences ponder about these

Jacobs’ narrative is open and honest in its depiction of sexual harassment, describing the nature of the abuse and the tortured emotional state it leaves its victims in. Though the narrative tells of a girl’s life over one hundred and fifty years ago, it remains timely in its reminder that many suffering women do not have the ability to safely end the harassment they face every day, and yet, they continue to endure the consequential

Harassment has no boundaries when it comes to race, age, or gender. As mentioned previously, there are sometimes underlying problems when it comes to lower-status positions and high-status positions. Power can be dangerous in the hands of the wrong person and can often be said in the workplace where power can lead to sexual harassment. Debbie Dougherty, an assistant professor of communication in the College of Arts and Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia, did an assessment based on opinions and perceptions of 23 participants. The study was focused around the question “why does sexual harassment occur?” and the most common answer that came up was “power.” One thing Debbie noticed was the fact that men and women had different opinions

Sexual harassment is discrimination that involves any uninvited comments, exploits, or behavior regarding sex, gender, or sexual orientation. If any type of violation is made by a co-worker, a boss, a work acquaintance, or even a non-employee such as a client, vendor, or contractor, this will be considered unlawful sexual harassment within the work environment. Sexual harassment can create a hostile and uneasy work environment. Sexual harassment includes inappropriate verbal advances, unwelcomed physical behavior that creates an aggressive, hostile, intimidating or malicious work environment for employees. Sexual harassment includes sending suggestive e-mails, notes, and

Bohmer & Parrot (1993) co-authored The Campus Sexual Assault Victim’s Bill of Rights Act of 1991. President George H. W. Bush signed this act was signed into law in 1992. This book in a continuation of what still needs to be done to prevent sexual assault and sexual harassment on college campuses. This book covers why college institutions handle sexual assault poorly and the consequence of their negligence. To do this subject justice they focus on the following questions:

Sandy Thomas, a journalist of Huffington Post, once stated, “Mainly this country hates women. Unless they are very tall, very beautiful and in close enough proximity to grope.”

In this assignment, we will be discussing sexual harassment and the effects it has on society. In other states, sexual harassment is handled differently among the community, law enforcement and other organization. Depending on what the state’s policy is on sexual harassment, it is possible a person could get prison time or have to pay an outrageously high fine. In this assignment, we have a scenario about sexual harassment being filed by a female officer who claims of harrassed by her supervisor. As the person in charged, I have to come up with a sexual harassment policy that is in compliance with the Supreme Court.

Revelations of alleged harassment and sexual abuse continue to hog the limelight in Hollywood as more women and men come out with stories highlighting their past experience at the hands of some of Hollywood's major players -- both on and behind the screen.

This paper is going to focus on a major issue throughout North America, sexual harassment and sexual assault. Both work in cohesion and arguably interrelated. This paper is going to investigate the ways in which the media depicts sexual harassment and sexual assault, and identify the problems and implications of their common approaches. This paper is going to identify the motivations, such as to profit, the initiative to sell, working alongside with the notion of sensitization of crime.

Abuse at the hands of powerful individuals is common in Hollywood, with cases of harassment and assault going back decades. Hollywood is scrambling to establish standards to tackle the misconduct that has been brought to the table by allegations against multiple powerful producers. Of these leaders who have abused their power, the most recent event to spark national conversation was the Harvey Weinstein scandal. For more than twenty years, he has been trailed by rumors of sexual harassment and assault. His behavior has been known to many in Hollywood and beyond, but previous attempts to expose him have fallen short of the demands of journalistic evidence.

“Movie stars are supposedly nothing like you and me. They’re svelte, glamorous, self-possessed. They wear dresses we can’t afford and live in houses we can only dream of. Yet it turns out that –in the most painful and personal way-movie stars are more like you and me than we ever knew.”(Zacharek .34). Zacharek explains that movie stars have the luxury of money, but they relate to us because they are sexual harassment by their higher-ups’. Sexual harassment has been known be in Hollywood, but many people don’t understand how serious sexual harassment can get. Many of these actors are afraid of losing their jobs. The #MeToo movement is a movement that was created to help women fight against sexual harassment. Many actors and lawyers want to

When you think of Notre Dame, you think about their quality of education, and how good they are at sports, but what you don’t think about is their huge problem with sexual assault and harassment problem they have. As of right now Notre Dame has two active sexual assault cases and one that is resolved, and in 2010 Lizzy Seeberg, a student at nearby Saint Mary’s College committed suicide after reporting that a Notre Dame football player violated her.

As seen in the case study, a court decision may be one way for any company to legally define what constitutes sexual harassment in the workplace, but there are many ways to define sexual harassment. Everyone has different views and tolerance levels towards sexual harassment. When a case of sexual harassment occurs in a workplace, however, it comes down to how the courts define sexual harassment. The Supreme Court defines sexual harassment to be unlawful in two ways. “The first type involves sexual harassment that results in a tangible employment action;” this is referred to as quid pro quo. For example, if an employee complies with the harasser’s request, then she will get a raise. This unlawful act is usually presented in the workplace by a person who has an upper hand, such as a manager, to ensure that s/he will get what s/he wants. Employees are often victimized by fear that they will not get promoted or that they will get fired. They also dread that if a complaint is filed, it will not be handled correctly. “This instance of sexual harassment always involves another violation of employee rights; [sic] wrongful termination.” This would occur, for instance, when “a supervisor . . . tells a subordinate that . . . she must be sexually cooperative with [him] or . . . she will be fired, and who then indeed does fire the subordinate for not submitting” (“U.S. Supreme Court Defines”). [schwinlaw.com]

There are federal laws put in position to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. Most employees sometimes don’t even realize what sexual harassment is are when they are committing this violation. On the flip side an employee may not realized when they are being sexually harassed and when is the appropriate time to speak up. Education on sexual harassment has increased within the workplace as cases are more public and fines are getting steeper.

    Pervasive sexual assault in Hollywood is no secret. The “casting couch” has been used to either make or break actresses careers since the 1920s. This unspoken taboo has been a part of the stucture of what dreams are made of. “ Long before Weinstein there was Louis B. Mayer, who co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in 1924. Mayer, the ground zero of this kind of abuse, had means, motive, opportunity and that critical piece of the puzzle: the whip. If women didn’t comply, he’d threaten to ruin their careers or those of their loved ones” (Adams). This taboo is so vast in Hollywood that no actress is immuned to these incidents. “ The victimization of powerful celebrities shows that no woman