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What is sexual harassment training?

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Sexual harassment, as defined by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), is, �unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature�when this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.�

Studies suggest that forty to seventy percent of women and between ten and twenty percent of men have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace. In the fiscal year 2004, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received 13,136 charges of sexual harassment. Clearly, sexual harassment happens in the workplace.

Sexual harassment training is a company�s attempt to combat the presence of sexual harassment with both preventive and responsive measures. This training teaches employees what sexual harassment is, and what they should do if they experience or witness harassment at work. The Society for Human Resource Management found that in 1999, sixty-two percent of companies already offered some sort of sexual harassment training and ninety-seven percent had a written sexual harassment policy. Increasingly, then, companies are responding to the presence of sexual harassment.

Essentially, sexual harassment training itself is education a company provides to its workers. The training can explain the laws against sexual harassment, clearly define sexual harassment, outline the company�s policy, and finally, inform employees what to do in the case of sexual harassment�whether they are the victim or not.

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