sexual harrasment
...der discrimination has received much attention in the economic, sociology, and psychology literatures. Economic research often attempts to explain discriminatory practices, i.e., wage and job-level inequalities, by looking at employees in terms of human capital and addressing differences in capital formation as reasons for such inequalities. From a sociological perspective, the nondiscriminatory structural explanation questioned that women are disproportionately employed in lower paying occupations or smaller and lower wage paying firms. First, the conduct must be offensive. If two employees have a good time exchanging sexual jokes, it would not be sexual harassment. If one employee kept telling another employee sexual jokes that the second employee found offensive, it would be sexual harassment. If two employees dated and engaged in consensual sex, this would not be sexual harassment. If one of the two then wanted to terminate the relationship, and the other used the unequal relative terms and conditions of employment of the work place to further the relationship, this would be sexual harassment. Jokes, pictures, touching, leering, unwanted requests for a date have all been found by courts to be sexual harassment. Sexual harassment can be between people of the same sex. Sexual harassment can be a woman harassing a man. I have a case in the courts right now where a woman supervisor hired a young boy as a stock clerk because she wanted to have sex with him. There is another case on appeal in California where t...