Wednesday, March 2, 2011

How to avoid sexual harassment

Now a days it has been a big problem for people to feel secure wherever they go, be it school, college, office, train stations, subways, airport, market, restaurants, streets, etc. From high class to lower class the issue of sexual harassment is bothering everyone and it just not tolerable at all. Everyone try to find a way out of every issue in their life to live securely and breathe openly, there are several ways by which one can prevent and avoid sexual harassment.


Usually when a person get involved in sexual harassment, they get senseless and powerless because it effect psychology on their minds and specially when they think that they cannot do anything about it, and when this happens most of them start blaming themselves for whatever happened to them. Female gender blames themselves in such a way that they think just because they are wearing short clothes, or they have put nice make up or they are too well dressed, they should’ve tied their hair otherwise they will attract others and in this blame they just cannot do anything about it. Whereas male gender feels guilty that they've done a big crime by being involved in this activity, but they forget that they are the victim, so the first and most important step to avoid sexual harassment it to trust yourself and speak confidently and report it as soon as possible and then other things follows easily.

It is better for an individual to live a healthy and wealthy life instead for damaging their career and get into an emotional trauma, because sexual harassment destroys careers and distracts senses. So it’s very important for an individual to speak up in front of everyone that what the HE or SHE is going through. An individual should try and understand what he’s going through and he should admit that he is being sexually harassed and should have some self esteem and guts to tell the harasses that he’s being offended.

If speaking to people or the harasses doesn't work then a person should go to the higher authority, because there are many people who runs human rights organizations in order to help needy people and people who are facing these kind of discriminating problems. An individual should hire a lawyer and file a case against the harasser.

Media plays a big role in every part of a city and media communicates to the masses, so if the attorneys are of no help then an individual need to address the media and state them about the sexual harassment activities, and the fear of public and media really makes a big difference and can give control to these kind of issues and this way they can be easily avoided.
To maintain a decorum in a big organization or workplace, the higher authorities should makes some rules and policies against sexual harassment and should strictly address that every man and women has the right to work freely and peacefully and any kind of illegal activity such as sexual discrimination will not be tolerate and will result in terminating the job of the employer or more serious action can be taken against the harassers.

Maintaining the reputation and good environment in every place will never lead to such activities and following the step to avoid sexual harassment will decrease the tensions from people’s minds and it will create an example for the new and young generation.

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