Sexual Harassment Prevention
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This document outlines sexual harassment and provides guidance on filing a complaint. It defines sexual harassment as unwelcome verbal, visual or physical conduct of a sexual nature that is severe or pervasive and affects working conditions or creates a hostile environment. There are two types of sexual harassment: quid pro quo, where a supervisor demands sexual favors in exchange for a job benefit, and hostile work environment, involving unwelcome sexual conduct that is severe or persistent enough to interfere with work performance or create an intimidating environment. The document advises documenting incidents and reporting harassment to a supervisor or human resources department.
Sexual Harassment Prevention
- 2. OUTLINES 1. Definition of Sexual Harassment 2. Types of Sexual Harassment 3. Identifying Sexual Harassment 4. Steps To Filing A Complaint 5. Conclusion
- 3. 1. DEFINITION OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT
- 4. SEXUAL HARASSMENT IS.. • Unwelcome verbal, visual, or physical conduct of a sexual nature that is severe or pervasive & affects working conditions or creates a hostile work environment.
- 5. BREAKING DOWN THE DEFINITION : “CONDUCT” • Conduct is NOT sexual harassment if it is welcome. • For this reason, it is important to communicate (either verbally or in writing) to the harasser that the conduct makes you uncomfortable and you want it to stop.
- 6. 2. TYPES OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT
- 7. ‘OF A SEXUAL NATURE’ 1. Verbal/Written : Comments about clothing, personal behavior, or a person’s body; sexual or sex-based jokes; requesting sexual favors or repeatedly asking a person out; sexual innuendoes; telling rumors about a person’s personal or sexual life; threatening a person, sending emails or text messages of a sexual nature. 2. Physical : Assault; impeding or blocking movement; inappropriate touching of a person or a person’s clothing; kissing, hugging, patting, stroking
- 8. “OF A SEXUAL NATURE” 3. Nonverbal : Looking up and down a person’s body; derogatory gestures or facial expressions of a sexual nature; following a person 4. Visual : Posters, drawings, pictures, screensavers, emails or text of a sexual nature
- 9. ‘OF A NON-SEXUAL NATURE’ • ** Non-sexual conduct may also be sexual harassment if you are harassed because you are female, rather than male, or because you are male, rather than female. • For example, it may be sexual harassment if you are a woman working as a carpenter on an all-male job, and you are the only one whose tools are frequently hidden by your male co-workers.
- 10. ‘SEVERE OR PERVASIVE’ • The conduct of the harasser must be either severe or pervasive to be classified as sexual harassment. • Although a single unwanted request for a date or one sexually suggestive comment might offend you and/or be inappropriate, it may not be sexual harassment. • However, a number of relatively minor separate incidents may add up to sexual harassment if the incidents affect your work environment.
- 11. 3. IDENTIFYING SEXUAL HARASSMENT
- 12. QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF: • How many times did the incidents occur? • How long has the harassment been going on? • How many others have been sexually harassed? • Who were witnesses to the harassment?
- 13. “AFFECTS WORKING CONDITIONS OR CREATES A HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT” • It may be sexual harassment if the conduct unreasonably interferes with your work performance or creates an “intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.” • For example, it may be sexual harassment if repeated sexual comments make you so uncomfortable at work that your performance suffers or you decline professional opportunities because it will put you in contact with the harasser.
- 14. • Quid Pro Quo (“This for that”) A person in a position of authority, typically a supervisor, demands sexual favors as a condition to getting or keeping a job benefit.
- 15. HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT • Verbal, physical or visual forms of harassment, that are sexual in nature, "sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive" and unwelcome fall under the category of Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment. • A single, severe incident, such as a sexual assault, could create a hostile environment. More commonly, a "hostile environment" is created by a series of incidents.
- 16. EXAMPLES OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT • Unwanted jokes, gestures, offensive words on clothing, and unwelcome comments and witty responses. • Touching and any other bodily contact such as scratching or patting a coworker's back, grabbing an employee around the waist, or interfering with an employee's ability to move.
- 17. EXAMPLES OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT • Repeated requests for dates that are turned down or unwanted flirting. • Transmitting or posting emails, texts, or pictures of a sexual or other harassment-related nature. • Displaying sexually suggestive objects, pictures, or posters. • Playing sexually suggestive music.
- 18. 4. STEPS TO FILING A COMPLAINT
- 19. FILING A COMPLAINT 1. Let the harasser know that his/her conduct is unwanted and unwelcome. 2. Go to a supervisor and explain the circumstances. 3. Be sure to take with you documented dates, times, and specific occurrences if you have them. 4. Also, report the incident to Human Resources. 5. If the appropriate supervisor is unavailable, or is the offender, report the incident directly to Human Resouces.
- 20. 5. CONCLUSION
- 21. FINAL WORDS… • As for conclusion, prevention remains an effective way to deal with sexual harassment, such as changing the sexist attitudes and belief system of society in general • This could be achieved through education to enhance public awareness of sexual harassment among the youths in schools and higher education institutes, as well as the working adults in both public and private organizations. • The government, as the largest employer in the country with nearly one million workers, could take a major lead by enforcing clear policies and procedures on sexual harassment.
- 22. THANK YOU!
- 23. Q & A SESSION