Sexual Harassment

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This paper describes and analyzes the sexual harassment case involving a female employee who served as an ocean lifeguard for the Marine Safety Section of the Parks and Recreation Department. In the case described by the paper, the victim of the sexual harassment filed a petition against the city of Boca Raton, accusing her immediate supervisors of building a sexually hostile environment at the workplace because they subjected her and other female lifeguards to uninvited and offensive touching, as well as vulgar remarks and offensive language. The paper explains why the particular situation described aptly falls under the category of sexual harassment.

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"It has been observed that sexual harassment is not specific to any gender and not all the time unambiguous. Its incidence, nevertheless, is observed right across the total labor force. In order to find out if a particular behavior amounts to harassment, several issues might be thought of i.e. if the behavior was undesirable, un-called for, or insulting; if the behavior was recurring, especially it was done again in spite a caution that it was unsolicited or insulting; if the conduct entailed a rapport of a boss and junior wherein one of them had "influence" over the other, the content and sternness of the behavior: spoken, bodily, antagonistic, damaging, incessant, persistent, or annoying; if specialized dealing with persons in offices, on the basis of their sexual conduct, had a depressing influence on other people in the job atmosphere; if a "rational individual" would be significantly unenthusiastically impacted by identical conditions. In spite of the entire legal, writings, and deliberation on this matter, even a lot of respectable individuals stay perplexed and anxious regarding what actually amounts to sexual harassment. (Committee on Pediatric Workforce -- Subcommittee on Women in Pediatrics, 2000) Studies have also corroborated a linkage among the intensity of workplace harassment and changes at the structural level in firms, especially where a lot of causes are existent. These comprise a new managing employee, a restructuring of the enterprise or the launching of a novel technology. (Fitzgerald; Hulin; Drasgow, 1995)"

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