its agents or supervisory employees knows or should have known of the conduct and fails to take appropriate corrective action. In reviewing these cases, the Commission will consider the extent of the employers control and any other legal responsibility which the employer may have with respect to the conduct of such nonemployers.Most women who have been sexually harassed on the job never speak up about it. Only a small minority takes informal action against harassment using company procedures. There are many reasons that women keep from speaking out such as guilt, shame, embarrassment and fear of being labeled. Young or inexperienced workers may even assume harassment is all in a days work. Many women may also keep silent because they distrust the procedures for handling their harassment complaints, or they dont believe theyll be effective. Sexual harassment is not about sexual attractiveness; its not about sex at all. Sexual harassment on the job is almost always an abuse of power designed to discourage women form continuing in the workforce or getting more desirable, better paying jobs. Sexual harassment is a male tactic to make a woman vulnerable in the workplace. Sexual harassment is hierarchical. The same man who is patting the fanny of the woman who works for him is not patting the fanny of the wife of the president of the country. (Evans.) ...
