Sexual Harassment Is Offensive, Pernicious And Needs To End

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Office Civil Rights defines sexual harassment as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal and physical conduct of a sexual nature, in which submission to such conduct is explicitly or implicitly made a term or condition of an individual's employment; reaction to the conduct is used as the basis for employment decisions; or the conduct unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance by creating an intimidating hostile or sexually offensive work environment.

Sexual harassment may be conduct toward an individual of the opposite sex or the same sex; it may occur between peers or between individuals in a hierarchical relationship; it may be aimed at coercing an individual to participate in an unwanted sexual relationship or it may have the effect of causing an individual to change behavior or work performance; and it may consist of repeated actions or may even arise from a single incident if