Sexual Harassment

'Sexual harassment is not about sex, it is about power.' -Gretchen Morgenson An unwanted sexual advance, an offensive touch, and suggestive comments illustrate examples of sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is defined by Stephanie Riger as, 'unwanted sexually oriented behavior in a work context.' However, sexual harassment does not only appear in an occupational environment, and this form of harassment is not limited to a specific race, a specific gender, or any certain lifestyle. …

…women and men will use sexual harassment as their security blankets and money making schemes. I want to emphasize to women that sexual harassment is not a money making game, and by crying sexual harassment out loud, women lose their power. As Jong demonstrates, 'If we take our power and use it as badly as men have used theirs throughout the centuries, we will not have brought about the world of equality we seek.'