Sexual Harassment in the Workplace against Women

People mainly seem to underestimate the impact that sexual harassment has on men. The difference between sexual harassment in men and women is in the level or the stage at which it causes distress. For women, it becomes a distress when it causes fright and not bother but for men, it becomes distressing when it causes fright and bother. To prevent this kind of harassment, management of an organization needs to have good monitor resources in the workplace and ensure that complaints are taken

Sexual harassment is an increasing issue in society and there are multiple branches of it, including street harassment, work harassment, and sexual assault. Sexual harassment is unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature.

As we have learned, harassment does not have to be of a sexual nature. Harassment can include offensive remarks about a person’s sex as well. The main noted issues involved in sexual harassment in the workplace includes vary from person to person. As per the article, 52% of women experience bullying or harassment in the workplace. One noted issue is management authority. The behavior of upper management or supervisors towards other employees is also considered as one of the issues. They have been known to abuse their authority which will in-turn affects the employee’s productivity and effectiveness at work. They have also been known to ask for sexual favors from them in order to promote or save their job. Women have faced these issues

In the film North Country, women were subject to sexual harassment ranging from sexually degrading comments to physical acts of sexual assault. Unfortunately for the women working at the mine, that was only the beginning of the harassment they’d experience. If this was not damaging enough, women were deterred, if not, outright sanctioned for reporting instances of harassment to management. It is reasonable to assume that culture at Pearson Taconite and Steel fostered a hostile work environment for women. Though the issue of sexual harassment has long been a prominent issue in the workplace, it is important to note that sexual harassment in the workplace became illegal only four decades ago. However, years after courts have required that

Sexual harassment is still very much in existence in the workplace today. Sexual harassment can happen in the work place for a number of reasons. The individual circumstances and situations are endless. No industry or organization is safe from the possibility. Sexual harassment includes anything sexual in nature, physically, verbally and physical. This paper analyzes the many facets in which employee Anna faces sexual harassment and a hostile work environment.

Sexual harassment, as defined by the Gale Encyclopedia of American Law is defined as “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that tends to create a hostile or offensive work environment.” An early and extreme case of sexual harassment in the United States was the sexual assault of African American women slaves by their owners, without any form available for legal recourse for the victims. Sexual Harassment wasn’t considered a crime until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, specifically Title VII, whose main purpose is to protect women from discrimination in the workplace. Unfortunately, Federal Courts didn’t recognize sexual harassment as an actual crime until the late 1970’s with Williams v. Saxbe, when a “female employee was humiliated and terminated for rejecting the sexual advances of her male supervisor.” Before that case sexual harassment claims were usually regarded as isolated incidents of flirting, and not considered criminal. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was also created by the Civil Rights Act, which works to eliminate unlawful employee discrimination. It wasn’t until the 1980’s that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission started to enforce the act, through stating that sexual harassment is a form of sexual discrimination. As time went on, more amendments and legislation was passed, making it easier to prosecute and also making it safer for people to file claims

The law currently recognizes two types of sexual harassment in the workplace. Quid pro quo harassment and hostile environment harassment. "Hostile environment" involves making unwanted sexual advances or other verbal or physical contact with the goal of reasonably obstructing an individuals work performance or alternatively effectuating and intimidating, hostile or formidable

Sexual harassment is a continuing, persistent occupational health problem in corporations and work environments. There can be extensive, negative consequences for individual victims and the corporations involved. Assailants and harassers can impact and hurt victims by affecting both their professional work lives and personal lives. The purpose of this paper is to heighten awareness and sensitivity to this important issue, recognizing that institutions, clinics, corporations, organizations and office-based practices have existing sexual harassment policies in place. This paper will explore both sexual harassment and non-sexual harassment within the workplace and the various components that are associated with harassment. I will integrate

As such, sexual harassment can be perpetrated by either coworkers or supervisors, because to commit this type of harassment, the actor need have no greater power in the workplace than the victim.” (Kohlman, 1317) There are many situations that are classified in each category that range from indirect to red flags for trouble and ones that are traumatic life experiences that will be the victim forever. Those who are victimized are not restricted just to co-workers. Managers, clients, those working in other departments, and supervisors are just some to name a few who can also be offenders. While the person that is being harassed is most often the one that is affected, it can be anybody that finds the actions inappropriate.

One of the more challenging issues in the modern workplace is sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is a serious issue. It can impact the ability of people to work, costing employers money and preventing people from meaningful participation in the workplace. It can be dangerous for victims, literally resulting in people feeling as if they must have sex with people in order to get or retain their jobs. The impact of sexual harassment goes beyond victims and perpetrators because sexual harassment can transform a work environment into a hostile work environment for all employees.

In recent years, there has been an increase in the attention given to sexual harassment at the work place. Unnecessary and unwanted sexual attention between women and men in the workplace has been there for a very long time in the past. For many years, this unwanted sexual attention has been categorized as a natural form of male/female interaction. However, this has changed as women have become more involved in organizations. Thoughts and feelings about the acceptability of this behavior are rapidly changing. What was acceptable before has become problematic and undesirable internationally (Sorenson, Mangione-Lambie and Luzio 457).

Named a form of discrimination in 1989 (Kubik, 2016); sexual harassment within employment can contribute to several negative impacts, such as low morale, absenteeism, employee turnover, and an overall reduction of productivity and performance. Occurring when an employee feels threatened or uncomfortable with the remarks or behaviour made against them or that they have been a witness to; SH claim’s reflect

Sexual harassment as a form of power in a workplace has to be one of the leading reasons as to why it occurs. The act of sexual harassment is abusing one’s power and taking another person for advantage, whether that reason be fear or promotion. DiSanza and Legge (2012), state that sexual harassment involves a range of unsolicited male attention that emphasizes a woman’s sex role over her work skills (p. 64). Although, sexual harassment most frequently occurs against women, that does not mean that men do not experience it as well.

The purpose for this term paper is to review the issues of sexual harassment in the workplace. As the workforce and diversity in the workforce increase, sexual harassment has a higher chance to occur. I will discuss how sexual harassment is viewed, what constitutes sexual harassment, ways to prevent it from happening, the cause of sexual harassment, the conduct, consequences, types, laws, how it should be handled in the workplace and also give my view points

“Men believe we should have laws against sexual harassment, but their hostile reaction toward women who sued successfully for sexual harassment shows that they are, in fact, threatened by the law. The criminalization of the woman reimagines the men as victims and the woman as a perpetrator” (Tinkler, 2012, p. 37). This quote speaks to the heart of the Vinson-vs-Taylor case. This case centers on the question, “Was the sexual harassment alleged by Vinson truly harassment because she was a voluntary participant?” The following case study will examine the decisions made by two separate courts, it will discuss when acquiescence is not permission, and whether or not the company should be held liable in cases of harassment. Finally the case study will examine how accuser can make a claim stronger.