WHEN YOU EXPERIENCE SEXUAL HARASSMENT
1.Whatever you plan to do, keep notes and evidence.
2.You can make a criminal complaint.
3.You can file a complaint with your employer.
4.You can go to a federal, state or local agency.
SEXUAL HARASSMENT ‘IS A SYSTEMIC CULTURAL PROBLEM IN THE ADVERTISING INDUSTRY’
The Harvey WeinStein case gave a strong impact about sexual harassment in the movie industry. Cindy Gallop, entrepreneur and former ad industry head, is trying her best to urge women suffer from sexual harassment in the industry to stand up and fight the issue. She encourages women in advertising to write her their story about sexual harassment. Gallop herself has also been a victim of sexual harassment some years ago.
HOW LAWS PROTECT US?
According to U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII applies to employers with 15 or more employees, including state and local governments. It also applies to employment agencies and to labor organizations, as well as to the federal government. It is also unlawful to retaliate against an individual for opposing employment practices that discriminate based on sex or for filing a discrimination charge, testifying, or participating in any way in an investigation, proceeding, or litigation under Title VII.
WHAT IS SEXUAL HARASSMENT?
History about Sexual Harassment
It is unlawful to harass a person (an applicant or employee) because of that person’s sex. Harassment can include “sexual harassment” or unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature.
Harassment does not have to be of a sexual nature, however, and can include offensive remarks about a person’s sex. For example, it is illegal to harass a woman by making offensive comments about women in general.
Both victim and the harasser can be either a woman or a man, and the victim and harasser can be the same sex.
Although the law doesn’t prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that are not very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted).
The harasser can be the victim's supervisor, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or someone who is not an employee of the employer, such as a client or customer.
Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when:
Submission to such conduct is made either an implicit or explicit condition of an individual’s academic, work, living environment or participation in a University community.
Submission or rejection of such conduct is used as the basis for a decision that affects an individual’s academic, work, living environment or participation in a University community.
The conduct is sufficiently severe, persistent or pervasive that it could reasonably be expected to create an intimidating, hostile or offensive learning or working environment, or has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s academic, work, living environment, or participation in a University community.