Review the school’s sexual harassment policy
Examples of Sexually Harassing Behaviors
- Sexual assault – all degrees, as defined by the Wisconsin Statues
- Exhibitionism – indecent exposure; flashing
- Demand for sexual contact, with implied threats to the victim’s security if refused
- Offer a job, promotion, grades, etc. as a reward for sexual activity
- Request, suggestion or demands that work be performed at harasser’s home, at a restaurant or motel
- Request for a date with implied threats if refused
- Unwanted touching, brushing against, grabbing, pinching any part of the victim’s body
- Hiring or other selection of young and/or conventionally attractive women merely to surround the supervisor by such women, regardless of talent
- Following, cornering, or getting the victim in a room along in a manner perceived by him/her as threatening
- Leering, ogling, staring
- Verbal harassment – obscene or suggestive remarks; graphic commentaries about victim’s body’ whistling at or bout victim; sexist jokes
- Sexual innuendo and/or use of sexual material in a classroom or workplace which is degrading to women, and inappropriate to situation (e.g. slides showing nude women; using a woman’s body to demonstrate cuts of meat, etc.
- Calling all women in the employ of the harasser, no matter what age, “girls”
- Sexually suggestive objects or pictures in the workplace or office
- Defacement of posted material pertaining to women
- All forms of harassment due to a woman’s biological and cultural roles (e.g. intimidating references to pregnancy and parenting)
- Harassment of gays and lesbians – intimidation on the basis of sexual preference
All of the above are forms of sexism – the abuse of sex by those in positions of power, who make unwanted suggestions and demands which are demeaning to the victims (usually women) and irrelevant to the work or school situation.
Compiled by the Board of Regents – Task Force on the Status of Women