l harassment occurs when an employee is confronted with sexual demandsto keep her job or obtain a promotion. This is a true violation of the CivilRights Act of 1964, which is also referred to as the Title VII Act. Eventhough sexual harassment by its very nature is complicated to define, theEqual Employment Opportunity Commission provides a general description ofsexual advances. The several basic varieties of the Quid Pro Quo harassmentindicate the unwelcome sexual advances and requests for sexual favors. Italso consist of other verbal or physical conducts dealing with a sexualnature of constituting sexual harassment when the submission to such conductis made either explicitly or implicitly just because a term or a condition ofan individual's employment. Secondly, the individual is used as a basis foremployment decisions affecting such individual. Finally, the result of suchconduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with anindividual's work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, oroffensive working environment. (Aggarwal, 89-93)Another form of sexual harassment is a hostile work environment. Thehostile environment theory involves sexual advances between the supervisorand the employee. An employee's work performance will be less effective dueto these so-called sexual advances. However, a victim can file a complaintagainst their harasser so that they do not continuously force them toparticipate. Consequently, they will be forced to hand in their resignation.This issue of power has nothing to do with sex. For this reason, both 4male and females can be the harasser. The harasser's main purpose is toforce another to feel or act in a certain way. Sometimes, sexual harassmentcauses an individual from effectively performing his/her job. As a result,is undermines an individual's dignity. In our society, there are three essential factors that relate to theissue of sexual advances. These elements are a divergence of pe...
