by : Siti Mariam binti Ali, G72955
Psychology Student, UKM Bangi
Psychology Student, UKM Bangi
We often talk about sexual harassment against women in the workplace but for this column I’m going to address the growing problem of sexual harassment against men in the workplace. “Many people mistakenly believe that harassment is limited to females”, says Roberta Chinsky Matuson, a human resource expert.The truth is that this type of experience is just as damaging to men. For quite a few men, sexual harassment is indeed becoming a serious issue, and some men are deciding not to just brush aside the unwelcome advances from women and men.
Sexual harassment filings by men have consistently increased, doubling over 15 years,” says David Grinberg, a spokesman for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC. Even though women filing charges makes up the bulk of the EEOC’s sexual harassment workload, men are becoming a bigger piece of the pie, with nearly 2000 filing charges in 2006. And that’s cases that get to the EEOC.
Many labor experts say men are less likely than women to speak up about such cases of harassment for fear of being mocked by coworkers, and even fewer would take the charges to a government agency and risk widespread knowledge of their plight.
For example, Thomas, who works in academia but didn’t want his full name used, found himself in an office made up of mainly women who would routinely share and copy each other emailed jokes and emails about men. A few of them made fun of men’s unique anatomy. The behavior, made him feel isolated. When he finally addressed the matter with the women in the office, “the women were stunned, generally with a ‘You’ve got to be kidding,’ kind of attitude. And they kept doing it.” There are a host of reasons the number of men complaining about harassment may be up
Acknowledgement : Eve Tahmincioglu, msnbc.com contributor, July 10, 2007
In 2005, Prof. Madya Dr. Sabitha Marican lecturer from Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) has done a study about sexual harassment in the workplace. She find out that since 1998, there are a report about sexual harassment toward men in the government agencies. From 500 people, almost 40 percent of men administarator is a victims of sexual harassment cases by a women. Study also shows that men in at 50 an obove also facing the experience. Malaysia Workers Deparment reported that from 310 cases, one is sexual harassment toward men.
ReplyDeleteby Siti Mariam binti Ali
G72955
i think, it's nothing to do with the passion or desire or what so ever.. it's all about money.. as we can see, some of the victim (men) are having a quite good income..
ReplyDeleteback to the basic, if you have this we call it "iman".. nothng to worry about, nothing will happen..
by Huzaimah
agree with huzaimah.. frankly, personally, i never heard about sexual harassment between same gender or towards men. but, i did'nt denying that it happens. maybe, when 2 people with same gender always hanging out or being seen together, they just feeling happy n easy with each other presents. this happen esp to people with same interest. maybe, there's nothing between them, it's just sometimes their behaviour can make people take them wrong..
ReplyDeleteSexual harassment happend towards men or same gender actually seldom been report or no complaint have been made.The only problem that happend towards men is bullying as far as i know or heard.This normally happend towards the men or same gender because of jelousy or their colleague trying compete among each other to achieve the best compliment from their boss or get the best position in the company.For the individual it is all about survival; you can either adopt bullying tactics yourself and thus survive by not becoming a victim.(Tina Stephens and Jane Hallas ,2006).
ReplyDeleteBy Jaclyn Nonggeng
agree with huzaimah.. frankly, personally, i never heard about sexual harassment between same gender or towards men. but, i did'nt denying that it happens. maybe, when 2 people with same gender always hanging out or being seen together, they just feeling happy n easy with each other presents. this happen esp to people with same interest. maybe, there's nothing between them, it's just sometimes their behaviour can make people take them wrong..
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