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A form of discrimination in the workplace which violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Offensive sexual conduct may include unwelcome advances, comments, touching, questions about marital status and sex practices, etc. Both men and women may be aggressors or victims. (Slee and Slee, Health Care Terms, 2d ed, p.404). While civil rights legislation deals with sexual harassment in the workplace, the behavior is not restricted to this; it may take place outside the work environment: in schools, athletics, and other social milieus and activities.
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- Harassment, Sexual
- Sexual Harrassment
- Harassments, Sexual
- Harrassment, Sexual
- Harrassments, Sexual
- Sexual Harassments
- Sexual Harrassments
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, prevention & control, psychology, statistics & numerical data.
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HARASSMENT, NONSEXUAL is also available
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- Sex Behavior (1979-1992)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Sexual Harassment. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017406. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017406
- Sexual Harassment. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_harassment
- Sexual Harassment. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q751722