Injustices in this world infect people’s lives like diseases. One in particular has not only developed over the years, but cases spring up in the most unthought of places. This injustice commonly known as sexual harassment affects women, children, and occasionally men all across the globe. There are many aspects when it comes to sexual harassment including its background, opposing viewpoints on the popular belief, the popular viewing, sexual harassment in today’s society, solutions to the problem, and what the future would be like without this injustice on the world’s hands. Sexual harassment has existed since the beginning of mankind. It was never considered a problem as it is in today’s society because values and principals in the past were extremely different. This injustice is just recently, in the past fifty years, becoming known as a problem, so it may seem as if it has come out of nowhere. In fact it has always existed, just never addressed. Up until the 1960’s women were only thought of as house wives and never had the right to think for themselves. Women began to stand up for rights in the sixties and feminism soared during this decade. By the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, this injustice was made illegal. In this proclamation sexual harassment is ‘clearly’ defined as “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitutes sexual harassment when submission to or rejection of this conduct explicitly or implicitly affect’s on individual’s work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment” (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission). Harassers are known to be anyone, but the public seems to target teachers, professors, and employers as common offenders. Harassers can do a lot more than just physically hurt their victims. The embarrassment, shame, anxiety...
