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END FEMALE SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN DELTA STATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

END FEMALE SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN DELTA STATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. SEXUAL HARASSMENT PREVENTION. WORKSHOP MANUAL. OBJECTIVES. To increase knowledge about sexual harassment in academic institutions in order to stop its occurrence.

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END FEMALE SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN DELTA STATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

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  1. END FEMALE SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN DELTA STATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

  2. SEXUAL HARASSMENT PREVENTION WORKSHOP MANUAL

  3. OBJECTIVES • To increase knowledge about sexual harassment in academic institutions in order to stop its occurrence. • To define sexual harassment and promoting the understanding of what is/what is not sexual harassment. • To promote dialogue about sexual harassment in academic communities. • To provide guidelines for addressing sexual harassment. • To provide support for victims of sexual harassment. • To explain legal and other consequences of sexual harassment • To understand your role and responsibility in ensuring an academic institution free of sexual harassment.

  4. WHY SHOULD YOU BE CONCERNED ABOUT SEXUAL HARASSMENT? • Sexual harassment behavior is contrary to the norms and values of our society. • Sexual harassment in higher educational institutions violates civil rights laws. • Being able to identify what constitute sexual harassment conduct and knowing how to respond to it are important steps in protecting students in campus communities.

  5. WHAT IS SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTIITUTION? Sexual harassment, according to theUnited States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) can be defined as: • Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. Sexual harassment happens when submission to, or rejection of this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work (academic) environment.

  6. This definition has been further elaborated: • Sexual harassment can occur in a variety of circumstances, including but not limited to the following: • The victim as well as the harasser may be a woman or a man. The victim does not have to be of the opposite sex. • The harasser can be the victim's supervisor, a lecturer, an agent of the employer, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or a non-employee. • The victim does not have to be the person harassed but could be anyone affected by the offensive conduct. • Unlawful sexual harassment may occur without economic injury to or discharge of the victim. • The harasser's conduct must be unwelcome.

  7. HOW COMMON IS SEXUAL HARASSMENT? • Sexual harassment is common in the workplace and in academic institutions, it is not limited to any particular profession, age, race or gender. • While the most common case of reported sexual harassment involves ‘males harassing females’, it should be known that there are ‘females harassing males’ and either male or female harassing members of their own gender.

  8. TYPES OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT • QUID PRO QUO SEXUAL HARASSMENT: Quid Pro Quo means ‘this for that’, this type of harassment occur when a teacher(or school employee) stipulates that your grade will be based on whether you submit to unwanted sexual conduct. Refusal to engage in sexual act or return sexual favor may result in failure or victimization. • HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT SEXUAL HARASSMENT: Verbal, physical or visual forms of harassment, that are sexual in nature, "sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive" and unwelcome fall under the category of Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment. A single, severe incident, such as a sexual assault, could create a hostile environment. More commonly, a "hostile environment" is created by a series of incidents.

  9. UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIORS THAT SIGNAL SEXUAL HARASSMENT • Physical contact that includes touching, pinching, patting, kissing, rubbing up against, fondling, groping, grabbing or assault. • Interfering with or blocking movement. • Verbal sexual advances or propositions. • Suggestive or obscene letters, notes, invitations or emails received at work or at home. • Repeated face-to-face, telephone or email invitations after having refused.

  10. UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR THAT SIGNAL SEXUAL HARASSMENT (Part 2) • Verbal abuse of a sexual nature, including graphic comments about an individual's body, sexually degrading words to describe an individual. • Unwanted sexual advances or attention. • Obscene or suggestive sounds. • Obscene or suggestive gifts. • Frequent discussion of sexual acts. • Leering, making sexual gestures, displaying sexually suggestive objects or pictures, cartoons or posters. • Making or using derogatory comments, epithets, slurs and joke.

  11. SOME RELATIONSHIPS IN WHICH SEXUAL HARASSMENT COULD OCCUR • Professor & Student • Administrator & Student • Professor & Professor • Faculty member & Student • Student & Student

  12. IS IT REALLY SEXUAL HARASSMENT? • There is a lot of confusion about when things cross the line from flirting/joking to harassment. If you are not sure about being harassed just ask yourself this question ‘Does it feel good or bad?’Flirting feels good for both parties, whereas harassment feels bad for the harassed, making him or her uncomfortable.

  13. HAS ANY OF THESE EVER HAPPENED TO YOU? • I have been the target of sexual comments, jokes, teasing, gestures, or looks. • I have had my clothing pulled in a sexual way. • I have had sexual rumors spread about me. • I have had my way blocked in a sexual way. • I have been touched, grabbed, or pinched in a sexual way. • I have been shown or given sexual pictures, photographs, illustrations, messages, or notes.

  14. HAS ANY OF THESE HAPPENED TO YOU (Part 2) • I have been physically intimidated by another student or lecturer. • I have stayed home or cut a class because I felt intimidated by my lecturer. • I have felt unsafe in school. • I have been penalized, threatened, or further harassed as a result of complaining about, or reporting sexual harassment

  15. HAS ANY OF THESE HAPPENED TO YOU (Part 3) • If you answered YES to one or more of these questions, chances are that you have been sexually harassed.

  16. TRUE OR FALSE OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT • Quid Pro quo is a form of sexual harassment that includes offensive verbal, visual and/or physical contact that creates a hostile work environment? True or False

  17. FALSE • Requesting or demanding sexual favors in exchange for grade benefits or threatening reprisals if the favors are not given is an illegal type of sexual harassment know as Quid Pro Quo harassment

  18. TRUE OR FALSE • The best way of stopping sexual harassment is to ignore it and it will go away.

  19. FALSE • Sexual harassment includes staring or leering that makes another person feel uncomfortable and intimidated and if it is ignored it will not go away.

  20. TRUE OR FALSE • Sexual harassment is really just a form of teasing an it is not against the law.

  21. FALSE • Sexual harassment can be very hurtful and have long-lasting effects on people. It is also against the law

  22. TRUE OR FALSE • People who sexually harass others are usually motivated by attraction and desire.

  23. FALSE • Sexual harassment is about power, not sex. A harasser's actions are often meant to humiliate or intimidate the victim.

  24. TRUE OF FALSE • If a girl wears revealing clothing she cannot then complain about being sexually harassed.

  25. FALSE • The responsibility to avoid sexual harassment is on the person doing the harassing. You cannot use the way a person dresses as an excuse for harassing them.

  26. STRATEGIES ON HOW TO PREVENT SEXUAL HARASSMENT • If someone harasses you, tell him or her to stop. Say you do not like what he or she is doing to you. If you are uncomfortable confronting the person directly, do it in writing. • Keep a journal of your experiences with sexual harassment. This will help you if you ever need to remember particular details. Getting your feelings on paper also might make you feel better. If the person harassing you or that person’s friends send you any notes or e-mails, keep them. Your records might later help prove the harassment. • Interrupt any harassment you observe and tell an adult you trust. Don’t be a bystander!

  27. STRATEGIES ON HOW TO PREVENT SEXUAL HARASSMENT (Part 2) • Meet or get involved with a leadership or other student group that works on sexual harassment issues. If no such student group exists, organize your peers to address this and other related issues, such as body image and dating violence. • Remind yourself that sexual harassment is wrong, is illegal, and should stop. Don’t tell yourself (or believe it if anyone else tells you) it’s your fault. Don’t ignore what is happening to you, hoping itwill stop on its own.

  28. HOW CAN YOU HELP IN PREVENTING SEXUAL HARASSMENT? • Share the information you gained from this workshop with others. • Be supportive of people you know who are facing this problem. Encourage them to resist and take action. • If you observe sexual harassment, be courageous enough to offer to be a witness. Put yourself in the victim's place and remember that you would need encouragement and support if this ever happened to you. • Above all, don't be forced into "going along with the crowd" and accepting sexual harassment as "the way things are" or as a joking matter.

  29. HOW CAN YOU HELP IN PREVENTING SEXUAL HARASSMENT? (Part 2) • Support legislation that seeks to prevent sexual harassment. Ask your school or union if they have a specific policy against sexual harassment. If not, work toward getting one. • Talk with your colleagues about things like appropriate dress on the campus, joking around about sex, personal relationships with lecturers and other things that people may try to use against you if you are ever a victim of sexual harassment.

  30. If you want more information about this topic or other issue affecting women, please visit DeltaWomen’s website at www.deltawomen.org.

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