Essays on Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassment (SH) is a wide spread problem at school amongst pre-adolescents and adolescents (Espelage, Hong, Rinehart & Doshi, 2016). Unfortunately, it has received less attention than traditional bullying, and is in many schools considered to be of the same category (Gruber & Fineran, 2008)....

Sexual violence is something that has occured throughout the world and throughout history. It stems from the idea that women are always treated as objects and exploited to serve men. Sexual violence against women is used as a wartime weapon and women are used as...

Sexual violence against women in India is very common and has recently been explored much more within the media and literatures. A rape case that sparked the nation was the Nirbhaya Rape Case in 2012 that involved the vicious gang rape of a university student...

Title IX was approved on June 23rd, 1972 of the Education Amendments and put into action. The official definition of Title IX is “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of,...

Sexual assault and harassment has become an increasing issue on many college campuses. With the changing political administration in the United States, there has been a variety of revised laws and regulations addressing the Title IX Act of 1972. The Title IX Act, prohibited any...

In this point of time rape/sexual assault survivors have little to no courage to seek help or report their aggressors due to fear of not enough evidence being provided, fear that nothing would be done or feel shameful in letting others around them know. Throughout...

In society today, Title IX is used to enforce equality and fair treatment among all ranges of gender identity, sexual orientation, and sexual assault status. The details of Title IX have been argued time and time again ranging back to a Supreme Court case from...

The topic of sexual harassment is challenging on several levels. When we begin to create a cultural view of sexual assault, we see that we are dealing with a complex set of systems. As we try to understand individual cases of sexual assault, it is...

In two of the Ford Motor Company’s factories centered in Chicago, 33 women have come forward and filed a class action lawsuit on the bases of sexual harassment. These women have stated that they have been groped, have had sexual vulgar comments made towards them,...

Today’s society is filled with violence, malice, and hate but most of that cruelty towards women is kept within silence. Many females today deal with struggles not experienced by others such as sexual harassment, a gender pay gap, and the hidden “Pink Tax”. Due to...