Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that violates Civil Rights. Unwelcome sexual advances, request for sexual favor, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment. The harasser’s conduct must be unwelcome. Sexual harassment can occur in a variety of circumstances, including the victim as well as the harasser may be a woman or a man. Though the reports demonstrate that the great part of case of sexual harassment are against women, for person of the opposite sex, there is also a great number of cases of harassment towards men, which mainly by a question of prejudice are not denounced. The particular facts of each situation determine whether offensive conduct has "crossed the line" from simply boorish or children behavior to unlawful gender discrimination. Not always when we said "sexual harassment" we suggest that conduct constituting sexual harassment must be "conduct of a sexual nature," but it is just as wrong and just as unlawful to harass people with gender-based conduct of nonsexual nature.

Source the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission