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Title: Sexual Harassment Awareness Training


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Sexual Harassment Awareness Training
  • Pittsburg State University

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Introduction
  • Jamie Brooksher
  • PSU Director of Equal Opportunity
  • Associate General Counsel
  • Russ Hall, room 218
  • jbrooksh_at_pittstate.edu
  • 620-235-4189
  • Investigate sexual harassment and discrimination
    claims, and do trainings

3
  • What do you think of when you hear sexual
    harassment?

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Examples of Sexual Harassment
  • A supervisor implies to an employee that the
    employee must sleep with him to keep a job
  • An office clerk makes demeaning comments about
    female customers to his coworkers
  • A manager is made uncomfortable by an employee
    who tells sexually explicit jokes
  • A secretarys coworkers refer to her by sexist
    terms, like Hey baby.
  • An employee send out a joke email with sexually
    explicit language.

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What is Sexual Harassment?
  • Complicated definition.
  • Two different kinds of sexual harassment.
  • Basically
  • Sexual harassment is UNWANTED, UNWELCOME
    attention directed toward a persons sexuality or
    sexual identity

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How is sexual harassment illegal?
  • Federal Law
  • State Law
  • PSU policy
  • Kansas Board of Regents Policy

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Pittsburg State University Policy
  • Sexual discrimination in the form of sexual
    harassment, defined as the use of one's authority
    or power to coerce another into unwanted sexual
    relations or to punish another for his/her
    refusal, or the creation by a member of the
    University community of an intimidating, hostile,
    or offensive working education environment
    through repetitive verbal or physical conduct of
    a sexual nature, shall be a violation of
    Pittsburg State University's Affirmative Action
    Policy.

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Pittsburg State University Policy
  • In other words
  • Using your authority to
  • Coerce someone into UNWANTED sexual relations or
  • Punishing them for refusing to participate
  • OR
  • Creating with your repetitive actions an
    intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment.

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What are the consequences of sexual harassment?
  • Federal and State Law
  • Ordered to pay damages in a lawsuit that is
    public record.
  • PSU
  • Terminated from job at the worst, severe
    sanctions at the least.

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Two Kinds of Sexual Harassment
  • Quid Pro Quo
  • Use of ones authority or power to coerce another
    into unwanted sexual relations or to punish
    another for his/her refusal.
  • Hostile Work Environment
  • Creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive
    working or education environment through
    repetitive verbal or physical conduct- of a
    sexual nature.

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Quid Pro Quo
  • Often seen on movies, like Disclosure with Demi
    Moore.
  • A threat that an educational or employment
    decision may be affected by an unwillingness to
    tolerate or accept sexual attentions OR
  • Submission to or rejection of such conduct is
    used as the basis for educational or employment
    decisions.
  • Illegal whether the victim resists or submits

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Examples of Quid Pro Quo
  • Sexual Bribery- soliciting sexual favor by
    promise of reward
  • Promotions, raises, preferential use of
    equipment, valued assignment, favorable
    recommendation
  • Threatened termination.
  • Threatened or given
  • Negative recommendations or references
  • Negative performance evaluations
  • Withholding promotions
  • Disciplinary action

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Examples of Quid Pro Quo
  • If you dont go out on a date with me, I wont
    let you go to that conference you want to go to
    this year.
  • If you dont flirt with me I wont tell you about
    important meetings that you need to be at to
    succeed here.
  • If you let me touch you inappropriately I will
    give you a raise.

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Hostile Work Environment
  • Classic example in movie, North Country with
    Charlize Theron
  • Conduct so pervasive it changes the nature of the
    environment
  • Usually more than one occasion, but if severe
    enough, one occasion is sufficient

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Examples of Hostile Environment
  • Seductive Behavior-unwanted, inappropriate and
    offensive sexual advances
  • Repeated unwanted sexual invitations, insistent
    requests for dinner, drinks or dates, persistent
    letters, giving personal gifts, phone calls
  • Gender Harassment- generalized sexist statements
    and behavior about women
  • Insulting remarks, offensive graffiti, whistling
    at someone, cat calls, obscene jokes or humor
    about sex or women in general

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Examples of Hostile Environment
  • Sexual Comments or Gestures- have sexual content
    or implications
  • Remarks or questions about sexual life,
    simulating sexual acts, talking about ones own
    sex life, staring, elevator eyes, sexual teasing,
    sexual jokes
  • Sexual Imposition- unwanted touching
  • Including grabbing, hugging, feeling, kissing,
    patting, stroking, neck massage or sexual assault

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Examples of Hostile Environment
  • Hey baby, you look good in that skirt.
  • You got a boyfriend? Does he satisfy you?
  • Women are all bitches when they are on diets.
  • You need a real man.
  • When is the last time you got laid?
  • Giving a co-worker an unwanted, offensive
    shoulder rub when you walk by.
  • Showing co-workers pornography.

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What to do if you experience sexual harassment
  • First, tell the harasser to stop.
  • Explain that the conduct or conversation is not
    welcome.
  • Second, document the behavior.
  • Write down who, what, where, when and how.
  • Report the behavior to someone you feel
    comfortable telling, like your supervisor or the
    director of equal opportunity.
  • DO NOT WORRY ABOUT RETALIATION!

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What to do if you experience sexual harassment
  • Retaliation against persons who file a sexual
    harassment complaint is a violation of PSUs
    policy and the law
  • If your supervisor does not address the problem,
    or if your supervisor is the harasser, report the
    incidents directly to the Director of Equal
    Opportunity.
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