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Sexual harassment is harassment of a sexual nature, typically
in the workplace or other setting where raising objections or refusing may have negative consequences.
In American employment law, it is any unwelcome sexual advance or
conduct on the job, having the effect of making the workplace intimidating, hostile or offensive.
The definition of the phrase sexual harassment can be broad and controversial, depending on each individual's opinion
of what sexual harassment is. While typical sexual harassment behaviour usually includes unwanted touching of a co-worker's private
parts, lewd comments, talk about gender superiority, sexual jokes, etc., some companies have reported that they have had to
fire employees (after a co-worker had complained of sexual harassment) for such actions as telling the complaining
co-worker how good he or she looks for that co-worker's date with another person, or for simply handling what seemed, to the
fired employee, to be just a harmless compliment. Although not always meant to, such comments may sound rude or amount to sexual
harassment, depending on context.
Probably the best definition of sexual harassment is sexual behaviour which the person doing it reasonably should have known
was unwanted/likely to be unwanted and distressing. Also sexual behaviour which the person doing it failed to stop after it
became clear that the person on the receiving end did not like it.
Two forms of sexual harassment have been defined:
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