Sexual Harassment

Sexual Harassment All Over

Adela O’Campo

DeVry University

Professor: Vannessa Moses

Employment Law HRM – 320

June 11, 2014

Sexual Harassment All Over

When we wake up in the morning we plan or day as we see fit. We have to us public transportation to get around. You head to work where you love to work, but this day is not going to be the same. You hear talk around the water cooler about your co-worker and you know what is being said is not true. With a flirting bus driver, boss, and co-worker this day is not going to end very good for her.

By the same token, you have to travel on public transportation you should feel that you are safe from others on the walk way. In reality some public transportation people can give you sexual harassment also. For example, you get on a bus and the drive is the same driver that you have been getting for past 2 years. This day we don’t know why but the bus driver comes out and says “you are sure fine in that dress”. At first you don’t think anything of it but when you are getting off the bus he says it again and now it makes you feel very uncomfortable.

(Black, 2014)

1. Street harassment

Unwelcome words and actions by unknown persons in public places which are motivated by gender and invade a person’s physical and emotional space in a disrespectful, creepy, startling, scary, or insulting way.

Equally important, we all like our jobs and we want to keep them, but there are some things at work that don’t appear right. You see that one of your co-workers is getting harassed by her boss and you can clearly see that she is very uncomfortable about it. So you ask her “why do you take that from him”? She tells me this is my bread and butter and I need this job. Sexual harassment in American work life is prevalent — as much as 80% in some sectors. Overall, 44% of women between ages 35 and 49 report experiencing sexual harassment at the workplace — even though almost every company has an explicit, no-tolerance...