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What is sexual harassment? Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination.The legal definition of sexual harassment is “unwelcome verbal, visual, or physical conduct of asexual nature that is severe or pervasive and affects working conditions or creates a hostile work environment.” Unwelcome: Conduct is not sexual harassment if it iswelcome.For this reason, it is important to communicate (either verbally, in writing, or by your own actions) to the harasser that the conduct makes you uncomfortable and that you wantit to stop. Conduct Of A Sexual Nature: Many different kinds of conduct—verbal, visual or physical—that is of a sexual nature may be sexual harassment, if the behavior isunwelcome and if it is severe or pervasive. Here are some more examples: · Verbal or written: Comments about clothing, personal behavior, or a person’s body; sexual or sex-basedjokes; requesting sexual favors or repeatedly asking a person out; sexual innuendoes; telling rumors about a person’s personal or sexual life; threatening a person · Physical:Assault; impeding or blocking movement; inappropriate touching of a person or a person’s clothing; kissing, hugging, patting, stroking · Nonverbal: Looking up and down aperson’s body; derogatory gestures or facial expressions of a sexual nature; following a person · Visual: Posters, drawings, pictures, screensavers or emails of a sexual nature **Non-sexual conduct may also be sexual harassment if you are harassed because you are female, rather than male, or because you are male, rather than female.For example, it maybe sexual harassment if you are a woman working as a carpenter on an all-male job, and you are the only one whose tools are frequently hidden by your male co-workers.