Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

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This paper looks at how sexual harassment is a profound violation of the respect with which each individual should be treated by others. In particular, it examines the problem of sexual harassment in the workplace and some of the legal remedies to this problem, which can ruin careers, damage relationships with family and friends, and force victims into years of therapy in an attempt to regain the sense of wholeness that they once possessed.

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Introduction
What Is Sexual Harassment?
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission?s Guidelines

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"The effect of both the EEOC guidelines and changes in the law have been that workers have more rights to complain - and more chance of being heard when they do): Complaints about harassment in the workplace have risen sharply since Congress amended the Civil Rights Act in 1991 to allow victims of job discrimination to win as much as $300,000 in damages from their employers. More than 15,600 sexual harassment charges were filed with the EEOC in fiscal 1998, a slight decline from the year before but more than double the number filed in fiscal 1991. (Racial harassment charges rose to nearly 10,000 in fiscal 1998 from nearly 5,000 in fiscal 1991.) (Brooks C5)."

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