Identify behaviors that are part of sexual harassment and explain how to respond to them.

What will be an ideal response?


Sexual harassment is any unwelcome verbal, physical, or sexual conduct that has the effect of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment.
Quid pro quo sexual harassment occurs when submission to unwelcome sexual conduct becomes either a condition of employment or something to exchange for a promotion or raise. Other methods involve the creation of a hostile environment where the harassment interferes with a person's ability to work. As the term implies, when sexual harassment is present, it is often felt throughout the environment.
This is a list of behaviors which, in particular, are considered unwelcome, hostile, and harassing:

• Actual or attempting rape or sexual assault
• Pressuring for sexual favors or for dates
• Deliberate touching, leaning over, cornering, or pinching
• Sending letters, telephone calls, or material of a sexual nature
• Making sexual looks, gestures, jokes, remarks, innuendos, or asking sexual questions
• Calling an adult a girl, hunk, doll, babe, or honey
• Turning work discussion to sexual topics
When it comes down to it, unwelcome behavior is the critical term. Unwelcome does not mean involuntary. A victim may consent or agree to certain conduct and actively participate in it even though it is offensive and objectionable. Therefore, sexual conduct is unwelcome whenever the person subjected to it considers it unwelcome.

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