Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

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This paper discusses sexual harassment. The paper provides a working definition of sexual harassment, as well as discusses the literature around the subject. The paper focuses on women in male gender specific positions versus women in female gender specific positions, and whether or not one type of job is more likely to produce issues with sexual harassment.

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"Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Sexual harassment is any unwanted sexual behavior, and it affects millions of women throughout every industry. Dr. Kimberly Schneider (1998) suggests that sexual harassment is so common in the workplace that many women believe that it is just part of the job that they have to contend with. Dr. Schneider (1998) further stipulates that although this fact may lead many to think that mild forms of sexual harassment do not deserve to be considered as crimes, when women are subjected to sexual harassment they will eventually begin to develop employment problems due to the impact that the behavior has on their self-esteem (Schneider, 1998). While sexual harassment was once only experienced by women in gender specific positions throughout the world, the inclusion of women in male gender targeted jobs adds a new complexity to the issue."

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