Sexual Harassment In The Work Place

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Sexual Harassment in the work place
Joel Acie
Dr. Ann Jabro
Communications Skills III
Robert Morris College
October 14, 1999

Sexual harassment is described as the most recently defined form of victimization of women, following rape and wife abuse (Henry & Meltzoff, 1998; from Rigor 1991). The phrase sexual harassment signifies forms of behaviors and discrimination that have occurred between the sexes throughout history. It was not given social, moral, or legal significance until the late 70’s (Henry & Meltzoff, 1998). The question that I pose is why do males and females tend to be ignorant about what is sexual harassment and what is not sexual harassment and to explain what studies have been conducted to answer this question and how can it be prevented at work?
The U.S. government and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, (EEOC), define sexual harassment as unwanted sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when; submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual’s employment; (2) submission to rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting such individual; (3) when such conduct has the purpose or effect of interpreting with an individual’s work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment for that individual (Fredrick & Atkinson, 1997). The term, “quid pro quo” which basically means “some-thing for something” is a form of sexual harassment which involves threats, bribery, promotion or conditions of employment for sexual favors (Richman et al.).
    Now that the EEOC and the United States government have defined the definition of sexual harassment, I am able to go into detail about who is involved. Harassment in other gender combinations does occur, the vast majority of incidents involve a man harassing a woman (Baugh, 1997). Women tend to be more sensitive to sexual harassment concerns because women are the primary targets of harassment and men are usually the perpetrators (Baugh, 1997). The most powerful and consistent variable that has been found to influence perceptions of sexual harassment is sex of the person who makes the judgement (Henry & Meltzoff, 1998). Women are more likely to interpret less severe behaviors as constituting sexual harassment (Henry & Meltzoff, 1998). The differ

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