Sexual harassment unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that tends to create a hostile or offensive work environment. Males can also be sexual harass, there’s also cases of same sex sexual harassments. In order for the case to be a sexual harassment charged the victim(s) must tell the person that is sexual harassing them to stop. If you don’t tell the person to stop then it is interpret that you wanted this. “Persons who are the victims of sexual harassment may sue under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”
Effects of Sexual Harassment
To better understand sexual harassment we must know its history and why this became a crime in the first place. The federal courts did not recognize sexual harassment as a form of sex discrimination until the 1970s. The problem originally was perceived as isolated incidents of flirting in the workplace. Most employers now know that they can be sued by the victims of workplace sexual harassment. The first accusation of sexual harassment was made by Anita F. Hill against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Debate still continues about what sexual harassment is, why it might be sexual discrimination, and what law can and should do about it. Sexual harassment is a social practice. How females had to fight to get any rights is misrecognition. So when you look at sexual harassment as sex discrimination it is all the same. Sexual harassment always existed it could also be known as misrecognition. If we define sexual harassment as unwanted sexual relations by superiors on subordinates at work then sexual harassment is centuries old. The causes of sexual harassment on females were mostly because of the females their selves. A lot of sexual harassment cases went unnoticed because females didn’t want to ruin their marriage or have their business scattered. In the United States history, slaves and domestic servants were vulnerable to sexual
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