Sexual harrassment

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Famed activist attorney Anita Hill once said, “But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.” Young adults in today’s society tend to mainly think only of themselves or only what is happening to them at that moment, especially when it comes down to sexual harassment. One doesn’t think about how bad it could be until it happens to him or her personally. If young adults between the ages of eighteen and twenty- four understood and were more educated about sexual harassment, maybe it could somehow be prevented or helped. Not only that, but with becoming more knowledgeable, those young adults could better themselves and gain possibly a bit more importance and maybe even respect from others. Sexual harassment is something that many people don’t just sit and talk about. The subject usually only comes up if it has happened recently, which most people think it doesn’t happen all that often. Those people are wrong. In the United States, someone is sexually harassed or assaulted every two minutes. Any and every person could at some point be sexually harassed anywhere at any time. That can become a very frightening thought to most people. Young adults that aren’t educated about sexual harassment need to know things like how sexual harassment laws are not always enforced, some countries don’t even have laws for it, and the victims are men as well as women. Although there are laws for sexual harassment, they aren’t always enforced and the harasser isn’t always punished. Every employment place has a department called Human Resources. This department handles all of the employees’ problems, sometimes does hiring, training, and more. When a case of sexual harassment has happened, the employee must go to the Human Resources department for the complaint. Sometimes, especially when there is no proof that anything of the sort happened,