Sexual harassment

Situations of sexual harassment:

• The harasser can be anyone, such as a client, a co-worker, a parent or legal guardian, relative, a teacher or professor, a student, a friend, or a stranger.
• The victim does not have to be the person directly harassed but can be a witness of such behavior who finds the behavior offensive and is affected by it.
• The place of harassment occurrence may vary from school, university, workplace and other
• There may be other witnesses or attendances, or not
• The harasser may be completely unaware that his or her behavior is offensive or constitutes sexual harassment or may be completely unaware that his or her actions could be unlawful.
• The harassment may be one time occurrence but more often it has a type of repetitiveness
• Adverse effects on the target are common in the form of stress and social withdrawal, sleep and eating difficulties, overall health impairment, etc.
• The victim and harasser can be any gender
• The harasser does not have to be of the opposite sex.
• Misunderstanding: It can result from a situation where one thinks he/she is making themselves clear, but is not understood the way they intended. The misunderstanding can either be reasonable or unreasonable. An example of unreasonable is when a man holds a certain stereotypical view of a woman such that he did not understand the woman’s explicit message to stop.

Nota cakar: STOP SEXUAL HARASSMENT!!!