Pros And Cons Of Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassment could be considered one of the major discrimination that face this generation. According to the United States federal government, sexual harassment is considered a form of sex discrimination. The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defines sexual harassment as “Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual 's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual 's work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.” ("Facts About Sexual Harassment") Abigail Saguy from Berkeley describes sexual harassment in the United States as a form of group discrimination. She also notes within her work that in the United States legislatures have not had as much of a instrumental role in the legislation of sexual harassment as the courts have. Furthermore the United States as Saguy denotes a larger range of actions as sexual harassment than the french

This coincides with our basic human desire to conform to a certain extent to the laws that govern our society. In order to progress through gender equality society must weaken male- advantaged gender beliefs but not to the point that it becomes a male disadvantaged gender belief. The fact that sexual harassment policy education is becoming commonplace, through the threat to companies to comply with federal statute, forces each worker to bear in the forefront of their mind these gender beliefs and the repercussions of continuing sexual discrimination. However, this practice can also backfire and make female workers be perceived as inferior because they need legal protection through such policies. This can lead to frivolous cases of sexual harassment in almost any