And to challenge men who engage in violence. Learn to identify and oppose sexual harassment and violence in your workplace, school and family. Sexual harassment refers to unwanted sexual advances or to sexually-oriented remarks or behaviour that are unwelcome by another person. Sexual harassment poisons the environment. Flirting, a sexual reference, an erotic picture, a joke may be perfectly fine if it is consensual and wanted.
Harassment is ultimately about inequalities of power.
The same action done by a woman might not bother a man because, in general, our society has not given women power over men at the workplace, the school, or in the community. Some provinces and many workplaces now have harassment codes or refer to harassment in their human rights codes. Under these rules, we are expected to know about what forms of behaviour constitute sexual or racial harassment. Like any laws, ignorance of the rules is no excuse. Men can join women in opposing sexual harassment by supporting efforts in our workplaces and schools to do training to create a healthy and productive environment.