According to the latest North American statistics, physical harassment is more prevalent than sexual harassment, and sexual harassment has leveled off. Europe and the United Kingdom are still fighting rising levels of sexual harassment. The degree to which women must control emotional responses to outrageous pressures is most closely related to sexual harassment. The fact that intimidation may be construed as sexual harassment is an urgent issue that male managers and business owners have to resolve. Some men may make excuses, but if a woman legitimately perceives physical harassment as something sexual, then the harassment must be dealt with as an issue of sexual impropriety.
Perception is everything.
Male owners and managers must not only address the degree to which their physical demeanor is intimidating to women, but how it is viewed by male employees as well. The answer is simple. A trenchant need to do so actually indicates incompetent, poorly trained management, or someone who has no idea of his or her true place in the universe. It may also describe someone who is so concerned with him- or herself that he or she cannot see how unalterably moronic or offensive those actions are. Sexual harassment is obvious, and anyone who says it is not is being willfully blind.