SEXUAL HARASSEMENT IN EMPLOYMENT (FACT SHEET)

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Sexual harassment is a type of discrimination based on sex. When someone is sexually harassed in the workplace, it can undermine their sense of personal dignity. It can prevent them from earning a living, doing their job effectively, or reaching their full potential. Sexual harassment can also poison the environment for everyone else. If left unchecked, sexual harassment in the workplace has the potential to escalate to violent behaviour.

Employers that do not take steps to prevent sexual harassment can face major costs in decreased productivity, low morale, increased absenteeism and health care costs, and potential legal expenses. Under the Ontario Human Rights Code, sexual harassment is “engaging in a course of vexatious comment or conduct that is known or ought to be known to be unwelcome.” In some cases, one incident could be serious enough to be sexual harassment. Some examples of sexual harassment are:

• asking for sex in exchange for a benefit or a favour
• repeatedly asking for dates, and not taking “no” for an answer <- (macam yang aku kena)
• demanding hugs 
• making unnecessary physical contact, including unwanted touching
• using rude or insulting language or making comments toward women
  (or men, depending on the circumstances)
• calling people sex-specific derogatory names
• making sex-related comments about a person’s physical characteristics
  or actions
• saying or doing something because you think a person does not conform
  to sex-role stereotypes
• posting or sharing pornography, sexual pictures or cartoons, sexually
  explicit graffiti, or other sexual images (including online)
• making sexual jokes
• bragging about sexual prowess.

Both women and men may experience sexual harassment in employment, but women tend to be more vulnerable to it because they often hold lower-paying, lower-authority and lower-status jobs compared to men. At the same time, even women in positions of authority may experience sexual harassment.

Example: A disgruntled employee spreads rumours about his female director, stating that she is having an affair with the company president and that she is only successful because she “slept her way to the top.”

Whatever her position, portraying a female worker in a sexual way can diminish her status and image in the eyes of other employees.

While sexual harassment occurs across occupations and industry sectors, it may be more common in certain types of employment, including:

• male-dominated work environments (for example, the military, policing,
  construction work)
• jobs that are thought to be “subservient” (for example, nursing, massage
  therapy, waitressing, the sex trade)
• work done in isolation (for example, live-in caregivers).

Source: Internet- http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/sexual-harassment-employment-fact-sheet