Sexual Harassment at work

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Sexual Harassment at work
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SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT WORK 1
Sexual harassment at workplace in Canada
In Canada, it has been found that around 19% of women along with 13% of men have
gone through harassment in their workplace. Harassment at workplace involves verbal abuse,
threat like environment, unwanted sexual intention and so on. In most of cases, sexual
harassment has found toping in the list of harassment. This harassment has a direct impact on the
health and mental situation of the individual which has experienced this kind of process at
workplace (Hango & Moyser, 2018). According to 2016 general social survey, it has been found
that verbal abuse followed by unwanted sexual attention is increasing gradually in the
organization where men and women are continuously in interacting with each other from
business operation point of view. In most of the cases, it has been seen that women experience
more sexual harassment as compared to men at the workplace. This kind of issue is not limited to
one form of organization, in fact, it can be seen in all the types of organizations it may be
political, entertainment, media, and other commercial sectors. Political and entertainment sectors
are exposed to their dark reality by many Media. A survey was conducted in Canada of around
2000 respondent in which it was found that around two-third of the respondent has faced sexual
harassment at workplace. But at the same, it was very shocking to know that 94 % of executives
were ok with issue and responded very firmly on this topic without displaying any seriousness
and said that can handle these kinds of issues (CBC news, 2018). As per the study, it has been
seen found that actual rate of harassment is high because in many cases, victim has not reported
against these incidents due to fear of losing job or career-related issues.
Three sociological explanations
Sexual harassment is usually linked with power relations. In this power relation, women
are mostly victims at workplace because they are not offered power as compared to men in the
organization. Women are mostly put in vulnerable and insecure job position intentionally in
order to exploit them by lowering their confidence.
As per the study it has been seen that one of the key cause of sexual harassment at
workplace is masculinities nature of men which is being supported by society from many years.
In fact, men were only able to gain their position in the society if they display masculinities in
their nature (Stichman, Wood & Watson, 2019). They believe that men are superior to women
and therefore they have right to control them. They have this perception in their mind that
women are meant to fulfill their sexual desire and their only occupation is to take care of family.
In addition to this, they believe that entry of women in these organization is a threat to their
traditional occupation. In fact, they are taking enter of women in organization threat to their
esteem. In some cases, these people believe that workplace culture will help these kinds of
people to fulfill their sexual desire because in most of the cases office culture is free culture.
Another aspect exposed is economics of women at the workplace. In this situation, men
believe that women are their economic competitor and hence they try to found out different ways