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Article: Sexual harassment in the office
- Article from:
- The CPA Journal
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants Feb 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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"Women should not have to put up with what is objectionable to men"--Justice Ginsberg
The authors take a hard look at gender or sexually-related conduct and how it constitutes a hostile environment when it prevents an employee from focusing on his or her job. Appropriate management steps for prevention and legal defense are also discussed.
Employers, who often express an unwarranted fear of sexual harassment claims, ignore the problem and hope it will go away and never happen in their office. This fear results from a lack of understanding of the nature of sexual harassment claims and ignorance of appropriate management steps to both prevent harassment in the office and provide for a ...