Unwanted touching and requests for sexual needs are called sexual harassment. This has occurred for many years. As many serious cases of sexual harassments have risen, they have to be solved as a criminal.

Many people believed that the major cause is men, but it’s not enough to explain the complex problem. According to the previous cases, the reason of sexual harassment can be divided into two parts: internal and external causes.

Firstly, in terms of internal causes, men and women may be unsatisfied to their lives. They need something special, especially in sexual ways. Worst, some people may have bad habits and cannot control themselves. They do what they want to do. Secondly, in terms of external causes, unlike the previous era, there are many women in workplace. Obviously, this tendency may offer an objective situation that people cannot change it. Furthermore, in workplace, many women and men like to wear sexy dress. To human being’s instinct, sexy things, short skirts or sexy posture, would lure people to out of control. Therefore, sexual harassment may happen frequently in the future. Since sexual harassment, unlike criminal behavior, may be difficult to define, the cases we have seen in the public just are small part of sexual harassments. Some sexual harassment defendants have said he or she just likes each other or said that was a joke. Many sexual harassments are hidden under the water.

Thus, the definition of a sexual harassment behavior is very important for solving these problems. Due to sexual harassment, employees feel no safety in workplace. In addition, they may suffer sexual harassment from their boss, which makes employees worry their job if they refuse the boss’ sexual request. For a business, sexual harassment would hurt their reputation and it would be hard to recruit employees. So this is extremely important. It would damage a business or a person’s life. Consequently, precaution is the best way to avoid sexual harassment. A smart business does things before, not after, and may enhance the power of regulation to make sexual harassment to be impossible. Making some notice to remind employees to know about the consequence of sexual harassment behavior, such as the amount of compensations, previous sexual harassment cases studies. Another way would be government legislation to protect the victims and punish the criminals who did sexual harassments. Also the government would get them into a jail or punish in money way. Recent research shows that the best training on sexual harassment or discrimination gives participants a chance to talk to each other, instead of just listening to a lecture or watching a film on the subject.

August 2002