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    kind of sexual harassment is something so utterly abominable and ugly to look at. The U.S government defines sexual harassment is, “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature”(U.S. Equal Employment). Sexual harassment typically victimizes woman, but this does not mean that men are not the victims of sexual harassment cases all the time. In many times sexual harassment can lead to abuse. The victims of sexual harassment describe this

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    Defining Harassment and Bullying Bullying is unwanted aggressive behavior directed towards the victim that in turn makes the bully feel powerful. According the website Stopbullying.gov, “Kids who bully use their power—such as physical strength, access to embarrassing information, or popularity—to control or harm others.”. In order for this kind of behavior to be considered bullying it needs to be a repetitive action that is done. The bully usually is a person that the victim knows and has had a

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    term sexual harassment is defined and explained thoroughly. The causes of this serious problem are presented and then the several harmful effects are mentioned and explained. A few approaches can be followed in order to prevent this offense from happening again, hoping to save the lives of many people. Keywords : sexual harassment , widely spread, victim , dangerous, accidents, childhood, adulthood, causes, harmful , approaches, prevent, save. Outline: Thesis statement: Sexual harassment is an ongoing

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    Bennett-Alexander & Hartman (2015) mentions that sexual harassment is based on gender and does not “Involve sex, requests for sexual activity, comments, or anything similar” (Bennett-Alexander & Hartman, 2015, p. 423). The non-sex requirement is the reason that the term gender in sexual harassment is discussed meaning whether if the individual is male or female that is filing a sexual harassment claim. Although, Title VII of the Civil Rights of 1964 mentions that individuals should not be discriminated

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    there have been noticing an increase on awareness of sexual harassment at workplace, since the rising of sexual harassment practice at workplace. The rise of sexual harassment begun as females enters the workforce. A research conducted at UK, shows that around 60% of females at work and 90% of female undergraduates experiences sexual harassment (Wilson, 1995) Despite that, there are many cases of female who do not report on sexual harassment (Davidson and Cooper, 1993; Kingsmill, 1989) Known that workplace

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    This girl, even though she is not yet in high school, has already been greatly affected by street harassment. This is too young! Girls like Sarah are in a crucial stage of development in their life. It is hard enough, as is, for teens to build up self-confidence and learn to love themselves without being barked at by random men on the street. How can people sit back and say that street harassment is not a major issue of safety? Especially when more and more children are becoming targets! There is

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    Think about having to be forced or coerced to demeaning and misappropriate conduct day in and out because you fear losing your job or being demoted to a less desirable position.  Focus on how many victims of sexual harassment underwent calling out sick so that they would not have to be manipulated into doing acts that were degrading and immoral with someone they believed they could trust, like their supervisor.  Moreover, walking into an atmosphere where work is not fun, but stressful and causes

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    Sexual Harassment in the Workforce I attended an event with NABA, the event is called Sexual Harassment in the Workforce. At this event we discuss and learned the definition of consent and what exactly is considered sexual harassment. After attending this event, I learned that consent has to be very clear. If you are not sure if you were given consent on anything than you just should not proceed to the next step or do anything else. I also learned that sexual harassment has to be ongoing and it

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    Sexual Harassment Cases

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    In the past, sexual harassment was viewed by the courts as being either a criminal or civil violation. In fact, when the harasser was charged with a criminal violation it was considered as an assault and when it was a civil violation the courts called it an invasion of privacy. According to York, when the number of sexual harassment reports increased in 1985, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission decided to publish a set of guidelines that specified what sexual harassment was. The EEOC guidelines

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    Sexual Harassment Issues

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    Sexual harassment is an ongoing problem in our society and has been swept under the rug in most sexual harassment cases in the workplace. The problem with sexual harassment, especially in the workplace, is the fact that victims usually cannot escape the situation from happening more than once. The victim is often in a position with their company that the victim cannot let authorities know of the harassment because of financial obligation to their family and themselves through the company. Sexual

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