Sexual Harassment In The Workplace
You do not have to just put up with sexual harassment! It is not your fault. You shouldn’t put up with workplace sexual harassment for a single day more than you already have. Whilst it can be challenging to speak up, consulting with our team in the first instance for support via a confidential channel will ensure you get the support you need to stop sexual harassment in the workplace.
Have you ever asked yourself any of the following questions?
- Why does my manager keep talking about the size of my breasts after my masectomy?
- Why is my supervisor talking about “sex appeal” in my probation performance meeting?
- How dare people at work say I’m gay because I’m 41, single, childless, and more ambitious than they are?
- What gives the interviewer for my job the right to ask whether I am single?
- Why does my manager turn a blind eye to my co-worker leering at me?
- Why do my co-workers think I’m fair game after they found out I do pole dancing as a hobby?
- Why can’t the guys in the office keep their porn-watching habit to non-office hours?
- How dare my co-worker assume that just because I’m an Aboriginal woman I must have been sexually abused as a child or suspect my partner of domestic violence?
- What do I care about the size of my manager’s penis? How does he think boasting about it is appropriate lunch conversation?
- What did I do to deserve being groped?
- What gives my colleagues the right to call me frigid because my husband cheated on me with another man? How could they taunt me when they know how hurt I am?
- Why does everyone assume I’m sex-starved because I’m a divorced mother of 2?
- Why do my colleagues make dirty remarks about my sex life because I married a black man?
- Why does management refuse to provide a female toilet at work, when the only toilets available are male and have urinals in clear view?
- What gives my colleague the right to tell me that good Muslim women don’t wear revealing clothing?
- Why are men like this?
- How long do I have to put up with my boss (who is twice my age) getting drunk at lunchtime and calling my backside “peachy”?
- How dare the managers moon the support staff during the workplace Christmas party?
- Why does being female still put me at such a disadvantage in Australian workplaces?
If you answered yes to any of the above, contact our team today.
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks
