Most would agree that the sexual harassment of women by men is usually about power. It’s not about them being unable to restrain their animal instinct or resist womanly charms. It’s about showing a woman that they have the power to say or do things to her and get away...
Workplace Harassment
Harassment of women in male-dominated industries
In male-dominated industries, women frequently confront a challenging reality marked by the prevalence of workplace harassment. This environment, skewed by a significant gender imbalance, often fosters a culture where inappropriate behaviors are either subtly endorsed...
Gender-dominated industries: Breeding grounds for harassment
Gender-dominated industries—where one gender significantly outnumbers the other—can often be breeding grounds for workplace harassment. It's an issue that affects women in traditionally male-dominated fields like construction or technology and men in sectors typically...
Tactics people use to cover up sexual harassment
If you’re an employee who has been facing sexual harassment on the job, you certainly know how problematic it can be. You know that it’s a violation of your rights, and it’s frustrating that other people are not respecting those rights on the job. But what you often...
Workplace retaliation: Why you shouldn’t quit (right now)
Your employer might be making your life at work pretty rough in retaliation for engaging in protected activity like whistleblowing or filing for employee benefits. They might alter your work conditions, such as your work locations or shifts, slash your wages and...
Little-known forms of workplace harassment
Everyone deserves a safe and stress-free workplace. In fact, harassment of any kind has no place in the workplace. Every employer has a legal obligation to provide a work environment that is devoid of insult, intimidation and all forms of harassment. Unfortunately,...
A perpetrator’s motivation behind workplace harassment
Why do harassers do what they do in the workplace? Too often, situations of workplace sexual, racial and cultural harassment surface, and, in many of these incidents, almost seems to be condoned within the culture of that workplace. A workplace harasser usually is a...