Harassment occurs where an unwanted conduct related to the sex of a person occurs with the purpose or effect of violating the dignity of a person .While Sexual Harassment is where any form of unwanted verbal,nonverbal or physical conduct of sexual nature occurs,with the purpose or effect of violating the dignity of a person,in particular when creating an intimidating, hostile,degrading,humiliating or offensive environment.
🎯TYPES OF HARASSMENT
*Verbal examples of sexual harassment include:
Making sexual comments about a person’s body, innuendos,asking about sexual fantasies,asking personal questions about someone’s social or sex life,making sexual comments about a person’s clothing,anatomy or looks,repeatedly trying to date a person who is not interested.
🎯Nonverbal examples of harassment includes:
Elevator eyes, stalking someone,using sexually suggestive visuals,making sexual gestures with your hands or body movements,using facial expressions such as winking,throwing kisses & locking lips.
🎯Physical harassment includes:
Giving someone a massage around neck/ shoulders,touching another person’s clothing,hair or body,hugging,kissing,patting,touching or rubbing oneself sexually against another person.
🎯Problems/ Consequences
The negative consequences of harassment can be longlasting and severe.Those who experience sexual harassment in any work can suffer
*Chronic health problems
*Post traumatic stress
*Depression
*Substance abuse
*Employment difficulties
*Relationship problems,etc.
🎯Solutions
*Employees and Management should know what sexual harassment is.
*Keep sexual harassment prevention training positive.
*Lighten up on legalese( the formal and technical language of legal documents).
*Every organisation or company should have policies that frown at all forms of harassment signed by staff/workers.
By Precious Williams
