Sexual Harassment in the Work Place Sexual Harassment in the Work Place by Sandra Helbig Sexual harassment is one person demanding sexual favors from an unwilling person usually with coercive overtones. All harassment is not sexual harassment. Gender harassment is not necessarily sexual harassment.
Sexual harassment can occur anywhere and in any circumstance.
This article will limit itself to sexual harassment in the work environment. Sexual harassment is a superior or supervisor conditioning continued employment, salary, promotion, good evaluations, bonuses and the like, on putting out sexual favors as a term and condition of employment. Sexual harassment is touching, stroking, grabbing at private parts, attempting to make the victim touch the harassers, and other assaulting behaviors. Sexual harassment is the creation of a hostile working environment by the use of obscene words and phrases, posting of nude pictures and cartoons, obscene gestures, etc. Sexual harassment is the importuning of sexual favors from an unwilling victim.