Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination and violates Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964. Sexual harassment is damaging to the workplace. It affects the individuals
harassed and the people accused, who may be innocent. It can become costly with lawsuits, give
unfavorable publicity or the invade a persons privacy. It can affect an employer, a school,
corporation or governmental entity, and an organization and its members. Sexual harassment
occurs at various levels between men and women, between peers or coworkers, between
supervisors and subordinates, between employees and students, between students, or by non-
employees on employees or students. It may also be committed by members of the same sex or
by members of the opposite sex. The majority of complaints of sexual harassment come from
women but are filed by men too. “Reports of harassment of women is higher in fields that have
traditionally excluded them, including blue collar environments, such as mining and firefighting,
and white collar environments, such as surgery and technology.”(Support, 2) Men still have most
of the supervisory positions in workplaces and they’re the ones who usually decide whether or not a complaint of sexual harassment is justified. So if a woman complains about the man who
exposed her, in most cases, she’s considered to be the problem. Sexual harassment does occur
with men but the problem is men are less likely to report such behavior. Sexual harassment with
men in the workplace is usually same-sex harassment and focus on men who are less masculine
than others. Men are also harassed by women, such as female supervisors.
There are two types of sexual harassment, as defined in the Equal Employment
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