sexual harassment

Examples of sexual harassment in the following topics:

• Sexual Harassment

  • Sexual harassment is intimidation, bullying, teasing, or coercion of a sexual nature.
  • Sexual harassment does not have to be only of a sexual nature; indeed, sexual harassment includes unwelcome and offensive comments about a person's gender.
  • However, sexual harassment is more socially acceptable.
  • As such, victimhood in response to sexual harassment has some unique properties.
  • Explain when and how sexual harassment is prosecuted in the U.S.

• Sexual Harrassment

  • Sexual harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or unwelcome/inappropriate promises of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.
  • Harassment can include unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature.
  • Sexual harassment may occur in a variety of circumstances.
  • Historically, sexual harassment has been prevalent in the military.
  • Strong, the Army's campaign to combat sexual harassment and sexual assaults.

• Job Discrimination

  • Sexual harassment may be a particular offer extended to an individual (i.e., a promotion in return for sexual rewards) or the generally atmosphere created within a workplace.
  • However, sexual harassment is not synonymous with workplace inequality.
  • Legally, sexual harassment can be directed by one person of either gender towards another person of either gender.
  • Women can perpetrate sexual harassment; men can be victims of sexual harassment.
  • Beyond sexual harassment, the most obvious instance of inequality in the workplace is wage discrimination.

• Inequalities of Work

  • Women are frequently treated unequally at work, often through sexual harassment and/or wage discrimination.
  • Sexual harassment may be a particular offer extended to an individual (i.e., a promotion in return for sexual rewards) or the general atmosphere created within a workplace.
  • However, sexual harassment is not synonymous with workplace inequality.
  • Legally, sexual harassment can be directed by one person of either gender towards another person of either gender.
  • Beyond sexual harassment, the most obvious instance of inequality in the workplace is wage discrimination.

• The Feminist Movement

  • The feminist movement (also known as the women's movement or women's liberation) refers to a series of campaigns for reforms on issues, such as women's suffrage, reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay in the workplace, maternity leave, sexual harassment, and sexual violence.
  • Although passage failed, the women's rights movement has made significant inroads in reproductive rights, sexual harassment law, pay discrimination, and equality of women's sports programs in schools.
  • In 1980, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defined sexual harassment as unwelcome sexual advances or sexual conduct, verbal or physical, that interferes with a person's performance or creates a hostile working environment.
  • In a series of decisions, the Supreme Court has ruled that employers are responsible for maintaining a harassment-free workplace.
  • The first wave of women's feminism focused on suffrage, while subsequent feminist efforts have expanded to focus on equal pay, reproductive rights, sexual harassment, and others.

• Gender Discrimination

  • Wage discrimination, the "glass ceiling" (in which gender is perceived to be a barrier to professional advancement), and sexual harassment in the workplace are all examples of occupational sexism.
  • Violence against women, including sexual assault, domestic violence, and sexual slavery, remains a serious problem around the world.

• Sexual Violence

  • Sexual violence is any sexual act or sexual advance directed at one individual without their consent.
  • Sexual violence is any sexual act or sexual advance directed at one individual without their consent.
  • Sexual violence is not limited to rape; it is a broad category that can include everything from verbal harassment to physical assault.
  • Forms of sexual violence include: rape by strangers, marital rape, date rape, war rape, unwanted sexual harassment, demanding sexual favors, sexual abuse of children, sexual abuse of disabled individuals, forced marriage, child marriage, denial of the right to use contraception, denial of the right to take measures to protect against sexually-transmitted diseases, forced abortion, genital mutilation, forced circumcision, and forced prostitution.
  • Sexual violence is severly under reported.

• Discrimination Based on Sex and Gender

  • Discrimination based on sex and gender contributes to harassment, unequal treatment, and violence against women, girls, and transgender and gender non-conforming people.
  • Extreme sexism may foster sexual harassment, rape, and other forms of sexual violence.
  • According to feminist theory, misogyny can be manifested in numerous ways, including sexual discrimination, belittling of women, violence against women, and sexual objectification of women.
  • Transgender people regularly face transphobic harassment and violence.
  • As members of several intersecting minority groups, transgender people of color—and transgender women of color in particular—are especially vulnerable to employment discrimination, poor health outcomes, harassment, and violence.

• The Impeachment of Bill Clinton

  • In May 1994, Paula Jones, a former Arkansas state employee, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill Clinton, and Starr’s office began to investigate this case.
  • When a federal court dismissed Jones’s suit in 1998, her lawyers promptly appealed the decision and submitted a list of other alleged victims of Clinton’s harassment.
  • Both Lewinsky and Clinton denied under oath that they had had a sexual relationship.
  • Again, Clinton denied any relationship and even went on national television to assure the American people that he had never had sexual relations with Lewinsky.
  • At the deposition, the judge ordered a precise legal definition of the term "sexual relations" that Clinton claims to have construed to mean only vaginal intercourse.

• Sexual Orientation

  • A person's sexual orientation is their emotional and sexual attraction to a particular sex or gender.
  • A person's sexual orientation is their emotional and sexual attraction to a particular sex or gender.
  • Sexual orientation can be defined in many ways.
  • Sexuality researcher Alfred Kinsey was among the first to conceptualize sexuality as a continuum rather than a strict dichotomy of gay or straight.
  • Gays, lesbians, and bisexual people regularly experience stigma, harassment, discrimination, and violence based on their sexual orientation.