sexual harassment

Sexual Harassment Sexual harassment in the workplace is a very big problem today. It is aproblem that hasn't really drawn much attention until now. More and moresexual harassment cases have been brought up today than ever before. Wehere about a harassment case in the papers almost everyday. Sexualharassment has even drawn attention to movies. One movie that has drawnits most recent attention to sexual harassment is Disclosure. In the movie Disclosure, sexual harassment draws its attention to theworkplace. The workplace is a very common area for harassment to occur. In some cases we might not know that it is even taking place. What is sexualharassment? The dictionary definition of sexual is relating to, having orinvolving sex. The dictionary definition of harassment is to annoypersistently. The definition of sexual harassment then is to persistentlyannoy someone through the use of sexual tactics. The movie Disclosure portrays an act of sexual harassment in theworkplace. It involves a male and a female. In this case the male is theperson who is sexually harassed. In the movie the male character MichaelDouglas is sexually harassed by the Female character Demi Moore. The twocharacters used to share a very sexual relationship at one time. The two splitup and did not here from each other in a long time. Demi than shows up atthe job where Michael works. She is Michael's boss. Demi calls Michael into her office one night to go over a few things about work. She than asks Michael to rub her back. Taking it as a friendlygesture Michael returns the favor. The back rubbing is taken a little bitfurther leading to other sexual advances. After feeling uncomfortableMichael shouts no, no, no and pushes Demi away. He then leaves thebuilding and heads home. Since they had past relationships Demi felt that Michael would want toengage in sexual relations. Michael was know a married man and felt that theactions were wrong. He had very strong feelings toward the act and decidedto take action in fighting the case. During the movie Demi continues theharassing. She also brings in the issue of Michael losing his job if he doesn'tcooperate. After a tremendous amount of arguments and negotiations the case iswon by Michael. Unfortunately not all cases are won but winning numbersare on the rise. Sexual harassment cases are becoming a lot more popularnow than ever before. In A Step Forward by Susan L. Webb sexual harassment is explainedin depth. In earlier court cases such as Miller v. Bank of America the courtinterpreted sexual harassment based on sex as a personnel matter between thetwo individuals not as actions directed at or effecting groups of people. Itwasn't until 1976 in the case William's v. Saxby were sexual harassmentestablished a cause for action. In 1982 two federal courts of appeal adopted a classification schemefor sexual harassment. One classification was Quid pro quo which means thisfor that. Quid pro quo is defined as all situations in which submission tosexually harassing conduct is made a term or condition of employment or inwhich submission to or rejection of sexually harassing conduct is used as abasis for employment decisions affecting the individual who is the target ofsuch conduct. The movie Disclosure follows the basis of Quid pro qou. Michael's jobwas at stake for not participating in sexual relations with his boss. Today heand many others are faced with a similar case scenario. The problem of sexual harassment has continued to get a lot ofattention. In A Step Forward surveys show evidence to this. In a militarysurvey of sexual harassment out of 20,000 military respondents 64 percentwoman and 17 percent men said they had been sexually harassed. In business40 percent women and 15 percent men said they had been harassed.On college campuses 70 percent of females said that they have been harassed. Sexual harassment is an extremely big problem that should be takenvery seriously. The only way something can be done is if more people comeout to do something. If you are being harassed tell somebody about it as soonas possible. The longer a person waits the less chance they have of somethingbeing done about it. If you feel threatened by someone confront that personabout it. If you feel that the situation is harassment but your not sure, talk tosomeone to gain the proper information you need. Don't become the victim ofsuch shameful acts. . Sexual Harassment Sexual harassment in the workplace is a very big problem today. It is aproblem that hasn't really drawn much attention until now. More and moresexual harassment. Wehere about a harassment case in the papers almost everyday. Sexualharassment has even drawn attention to movies. One movie that has drawnits most recent attention to sexual harassment is Disclosure is sexualharassment? The dictionary definition of sexual is relating to, having orinvolving sex. The dictionary definition of harassment is to annoypersistently. The definition of sexual harassment