Sexual harassment at work can have very serious consequences both for the assault individual as well as for other working women who experience it secondhand. Although economic loss can be calculated,noneconomic damage are hard to calculated. Damage for such matters as injury to feelings, distress and the effects of on the victim’s relationships with other people are hard to calculated.
Victim
First of all sexual harassment is a type of sexual assault. Victim can suffer severely psychological and physiological effects. Depending on different situation, a sexual harassed victim can experience anything from mild annoyance to extreme psychological damage. As a result, the impact on victim’s life, career and even family may be minimal, or it is probable to ruin their life and career and even family.
Performance of on work or study could decrease by sexual harassment. Because when victim are working in the workplace, they are more sensitive on the surrounding environment. Such as if peer were talking about something, victim are more over sensitive on whether they are talking about herself and what are they talking about. On the workplace maybe some peers’ action is not offence, such as touch, some words and a joke, which could make victim to consider that kinds of action as intentional motive. Some of victims become more silent after experienced sexual harassment, even though in the place where need them to report and discussed with other peers. Usually they are loss self-confident and cannot focus on their job and work and more excessive anxiety and nervous. All of impacts result to lower efficient on the work and decreased performance. As a result victims probably change their job or find another job. But here is concern that when they find another job and have an interview chance to talk about with employers. How to answer this questions “why did you leave your last job?” Certainly when you tell the employers real truth, employers