ABSTRACT
The term ‘sexual harassment’, standing for a particular set of unwelcome sexualized behaviours in the organizational context, could be seen to have passed into the common argot in the West following Williams v. Saxbe (1976)—the first harassment complaint to succeed in an American court (Faley 1982:585-6). However, this relatively recent ‘recognition’ notwithstanding, harassment is widely understood to be a phenomenon that has existed throughout time, albeit one that has only come to public attention during the last three decades of the twentieth century:
Women have been sexually harassed on the job for as long as they have been in the workplace. Yet it has only been within the past few years that the public and professional community have identified sexual harassment as a serious problem.
