... . The harasser can be a supervisor, co-worker, or a non-employee such as a supplier or customer (Pruitt, 2001, p. 29). Examples of hostile work environment include: making sexually suggestive remarks, gestures, or jokes; making offensive, negative remarks about the victim's gender or physical appearance; deliberate unwelcome touching, pinching or patting; displaying sexual illustrations in the workplace; unwelcome pressuring for dates or sex; describing ... ...

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... environment. What may be defined as sexual harassment? Comments like date me or else! Displaying pornographic material and playfully groping co-workers. Verbal abuse may take the form of sexual jokes, comments with sexual overtones, inquiries about a person's sex life and unwelcome gestures, indecent exposure, and unwelcome display of sexually explicit pictures or objects. According to Mowatt, sexual harassment occurs 'when ... ...

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