Sexual harassment is conduct that would not occur but for the sex of the person at whom the conduct is directed. Some of that conduct is sexualized, and is the sort of thing people often think of as sexual harassment, including demanding sexual favors in various ways, or subjecting women to sexualized remarks or pictures. Much more common is sexual harassment that is sometimes called gender harassment, and is sometimes known as the creation of a "hostile work environment" or a "hostile educational environment." This includes the whole wide range of conduct that belittles, demeans and attacks women because they are women, in the workplace or university, ranging from slurs through aggressive teasing to outright exclusion from the dominant clique of men at a particular workplace or educational institution. The definition is based on concepts developed when the courts were thinking about racial harassment, ranging from racial slurs and nooses being left in the workplace to outright segregation, which also violates Title VII.
Stephen E Philion wrote,
It is sexual harrassment. It is the assertion that you do not deserve your appointment, that it was made solely because of your sex.
in response to this [unattributed] remark: --hardly, SH is about manipulating power to win sexual favors. the comment made was ignorant, uncalled for, ridiculous, surely and even sexist. it's not sexual harrassment, except at universities that have the loosest possible definition...
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