WHAT TYPES OF CONDUCT HAVE BEEN FOUND TO BE “SEXUAL HARASSMENT”?
Sexual harassment is far broader than a threat along the lines, “If you want to keep your job, you’ll have to go to bed with me.” Courts and agencies – after considering all of the circumstances in the particular cases – have found the following types of conduct to be illegal sexual harassment: • repeated sexual innuendo, obscene or off-color jokes, slurs, lewd remarks and language, and other offensive sexual comments; • content in letters and notes, facsimiles, e-mail, graffiti that is of a sexual nature or sexually abusive; • sexual propositions, insults, and threats; sexually-oriented demeaning names; • persistent unwanted sexual or romantic overtures or attention; • leering, whistling, or other sexually suggestive sounds or gestures; • displaying pornographic pictures, calendars, cartoons, or other sexual material in the workplace; • coerced or unwelcome touching, patting, brushing up against, pinching, kissing, stroking, massaging, squeezing, fondling, or tickling; • subtle or ove
