Talk:Sexual harassment

An omission
I meant to link here the phrase "online sexual harassment", only I could not find a section about it. I was surprised to find nothing about sexual harassment in public places -- only in work or military situations. I looked in the Talk archive, & see at least one reference to this omission. And looking at the category, there is no article about sexual harassment in public places, not even an article catcall. (Note that is a redirect.) Is this too controversial -- that is, vulnerable to a vicious edit war leading to ArbCom intervention -- a topic to create an article about? -- llywrch (talk) 20:55, 6 May 2023 (UTC)


 * steve c hayes (American psychology) psychopath, sexual harasser. world communication (sources) 45.49.250.9 (talk) 03:35, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Always male
This article tries hard to omit the fact that the "perpetrator" is always male and not female. I propose to clarify this and state explicitly that males are considered at fault in most of cases in this article if nobody objects. Best. AXO NOV (talk) ⚑ 13:33, 6 January 2024 (UTC)


 * I'd say that quite a few of the references and several sections of the article contradict this addition, for example, the PEW research study indicating that 25% of women and 13% of men had experienced sexual harassment (source 26). Recon  rabbit  14:50, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Women can sexually harass men or even other women.  D r e a m Focus  15:02, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Only in minority of cases. Most of the time it's men in higher positions of employment who take advantage of subordinate women than otherwise. AXO NOV  (talk) ⚑ 15:35, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
 * There cannot be contradictions over here cause many studies are overhelmingly about women, not men. E.g. often cited is a gynocentric study.  AXO NOV  (talk) ⚑ 15:39, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Further, cases like Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co. where men are the blamed party and women are victims, indicates support for the said proposal. I can continue, but I got little time actually to dig it up more. AXO NOV  (talk) ⚑ 15:49, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
 * It happens both ways and that should be mentioned. https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/sexual-harassment-workplace-key-findings-overview Case study: 70% of cases were men sexually harassing women, 19% women sexually harassing men, 9% men sexually harassing men, 2% involved women sexually harassing women. That's just in Australia.  You can find case studies in other nations.   D r e a m Focus  21:07, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Always ≠ In most cases. Moreover, if term sexual harassment is understood broadly, as it is understood in contemprorary US judicial practice then I very much doubt that conservative women, especially in conservative countries, rarely commit this act. Reprarina (talk) 09:57, 15 July 2024 (UTC)