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Hostile Work Environment Issues

This question concerns the potential for the creation of a hostile work environment in relation to sexual harassment wherein the aggrieved parties would be male workers and the parties creating the hostile environment would be female workers. Two issues are of the greatest relevance. First, do the acts described in the scenario constitute sexual harassment to the point that a hostile environment exists? Second, does the fact that males are the aggrieved parties and females the offending parties have any legal effect on the determination?

In 1980, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) adopted guidelines covering discrimination based on sex which both defined sexual harassment and established the conditions that must exist for a claim of discrimination based on sexual harassment to prevail.á The guidelines define sexual harassment as follows: ôUnwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute harassment when (1) submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individualÆs employment, (2) submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting such individual, or (3) such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individualÆs work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environmentö (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1980, p. 5). Thus, the behaviors of the women described in the scenario for this question constitute sexual harassment to the point that a hostile environment exists because the conduct has the effect of unreasonably interfering with an individualÆs work performance by creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment.

With respect to the issue of whether it makes a difference that males are the aggrieved parties in this case, the United Sta...

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