Doesn sexual harassment have to involve sexual advances or other conduct sexual in nature?
No. The 1980 EEOC Guidelines on Sexual Harassment do suggest that conduct constituting sexual harassment must be “conduct of a sexual nature,” but it is just as wrong and just as unlawful to harass people with gender-based conduct of a non-sexual nature. The key question is not whether the conduct was sexual in nature but whether it was based on the victim’s gender.
