Sexual Harassment

Paper Summary:

The paper explores why sexual harassment has become an increasing concern for large and small employers alike. The writer explains that due to uncertainty about the factual and finite definition of sexual harassment, legal forces are attempting to put together a rule of standards, to which the various government agencies would sign off. This has not yet happened, fraught as it is with all sorts of gender as well as political overtones.
Topics covered in this paper include:
What Sexual Harassment Is, and What It Is Not?
The Mine Field Employers Must Navigate
Some Harassment Statistics

From the Paper:

"There are two types of sexual harassment "'Quid-pro quo' and 'hostile environment'" Quid-pro-quo, which is Latin for "this for that" is, simply put, a trade. For example, the trade may involve an employer making sex a prerequisite for getting something in the workplace. For example "sleep with me and you'll get the job...or raise..." This is the old "casting couch syndrome. There is also a negative quid-pro-quo: "sleep with me or you're fired!"
Hostile environment harassment is a situation in which the employer (or a supervisor or co-worker) does or says things that make the victim uncomfortable, because of his or her sex. The fact that same-sex harassment is now as much a harassment crime as male-female sexual hostility and harassment is a sign of our times."

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