Examples of gender-based harassment, sexual harassment and violence
Verbal
- Pressure for sexual favours
- Unwelcome sexual or gender-based teasing, joking, comments or questions
- Personal questions about private life or sex life or spreading rumours about the sexual behaviour of an individual
- Gender-based or sexual comments about clothing or the appearance of an individual
- Inappropriate and/or persistent invitations for a date
- To make an employee dress in a sexual or gender-based way at work
Symbolic
- Unwelcome indicated sexual attention
- Cat calling
- Showing or sending sexual content via SMS, email or on social media
Physical
- Rape or attempted sexual abuse
- Shaking, hitting, kicking, biting or spanking
- Unwelcome hugs, kisses, petting or stroking
- To enter an individual’s personal space, such as by leaning over or cornering, provided it is unwelcome behaviour
- Unwelcome touching, grabbing and groping
Consequences
Communal
- Inequality
- Gender-based wage difference
- Increased expense due to welfare issues
- Health care- and pharmaceutical costs
- Lower gross national product
In the work place
- Absence and sickness
- Higher personnel turn over
- Less productivity
- Bad morale and reduced incentive
- Compensation and expenses for the cost of psychologists and lawyers
- Loss of goodwill and damaging effect on company's image