Sexual harassment is a special form of illegal workplace harassment. All of the above information applies to all illegal workplace harassment including sexual harassment. There are some additional factors that are unique to sexual harassment. All this attention to sexual harassment has taken romance, chivalry and ordinary comradery between co-workers of opposite sexes out of the workplace. Sexual harassment is about sex.
Sexual harassment is most often about power.
It rarely has anything in common with normal sexual or romantic relationships. Women of all types and ages get sexually harassed irrespective of how attractive they are or how they are dressed. Whether or not romance belongs in the workplace, true romance chivalry and comradery are the products of consensual, mutually desired human interaction. Sexual harassment is the opposite. It is a tool for the exertion of power by one person over another who for any of a variety of reasons is seen as vulnerable and unable to effectively fight back.