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Sexual Harassment in the Workplace:
Are Employers Doing Enough?
Within the last ten to fifteen years companies have seen an immense increase in the number of harassment lawsuits. Employers are frequently held liable for acts of harassment committed in the workplace even when they are not aware that such acts are taking place, and prevention is the best tool to eliminate sexual harassment on the job. For that reason, employers have increased efforts to take steps designed to prevent acts of harassment, and to identify and fix such acts promptly when they do occur in the workplace. By a company taking these steps, it minimizes the likelihood that liability for harassment will be placed on the employer. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 discusses harassment in the nature of race, religion, sex and national origin, however it does not specifically mention sexual harassment (Friedman, Joel, Marcia Mobilia Boumil, and Barbara Ewert Taylor 37). ... The Guidelines state that sexual harassment violates S 703 of Title VII, which prohibits discrimination in compensation, conditions, or privileges of employment because of an individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The Guidelines recognize two forms of sexual harassment: quid pro quo and hostile-environment sexual harassment. (Achampong 17)
Hostile environment harassment generally involves degrading an individual based on their race, religion, gender or national origin, and creating an intimidating or offensive working environment. ... Examples of hostile environment harassment include: "pornography, sexual conversations, sexual and sexist jokes, girlie posters and the like. ... The fact that a worker tolerates racial or sexual remarks or attempts to laugh them off in order to fit in with the other workers does not mean that the conduct is welcome or invited.
The importance of an adequate definition of sexual harassment was underscored in October 1991, when Clarence Thomas went before the Senate for confirmation of his seat on the U. ... Although it was clear that if Anita Hill’s charges were true, Thomas did sexually harass her, the media gave considerable coverage to the problem of deciding what constitutes sexual harassment (Wall 12).
It was during this time that employers really began to take notice and heavily implement harassment policies in the workplace.
Approximate Word count = 1745
Approximate Pages = 7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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