ABSTRACT
While both women and men can be subjected to sexual harassment, more women suffer from it than men. In a number of countries, sexual harassment is regarded as a form of sex discrimination. This began in 1977 with a United States court case, which determined that sexual harassment constituted sex discrimination, reasoning that but for her womanhood (the complainant's) participation in sexual activity would never have been solicited. . . She became the target of her superior's sexual desires because she was a woman, and was asked to bow to his demands as the price for holding her job (reported in ILO 1992).
