Male Harassment Is No Joke
June 17, 2008
Harassment is common, whether it is male or female harassment. While, many articles have been written about female harassment in the workplace, it is time that someone addressed the growing problem of male harassment in the workplace. Few may take it seriously, but it is no laughing matter. Many men have had to brush aside unwelcome advances not only from women, but also from their own gender.
Though the bulk of harassment cases are filed by women, of late there has been an increase in the number of male harassment cases that have been filed by men. Experts believe that men are less likely than women to speak up about harassment for fear of being mocked at. Take Thomas for example, who works in academia and found himself in an office made up of mainly women. These women routinely shared and emailed jokes about men. Such behavior made him feel isolated. Picking up courage he finally addressed the matter with his female co-workers, who were stunned but kept on doing it.
The first ever court case involving sexual harassment of a man in the workplace was in 1995, when a Domino Pizza female supervisor sexually harassed the male manager of a store and then fired him. And, this not the lone isolated case of women in positions of authority indulging in some male harassment. Government surveys have further unveiled a hidden world of male harassment, with female managers exploiting their power over men in the office. The study finds that despite a common stereotype of male executives pressurising their secretaries, two in five victims of sexual harassment are men.
As well, a quarter of men who responded to the Department of Trade and Industry survey reported being pestered by a client – male or female, whom they felt obliged to please. According to the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), 8% of calls to its sexual harassment helpline are from men, even though research shows male victims are less likely than women to complain. t insists that male complaints should be taken just as seriously. “It affects both women and men, causing stress, health problems and financial penalties when they leave their jobs to avoid it,” says Jenny Watson, chair of the EOC.
Thus, it is clear that males are not the only ones to indulge in sexual harassment of the other sex. As women begin to occupy positions of power in the corporate world, they too are not averse to indulging in male harassment, something that is becoming more and more common these days.
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