Sexual Harassment
If an employee works for an employer with 15 or more employees, sexual harassment at work is explicitly prohibited as a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However, this kind of behavior still happens. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defines sexual harassment as:
"Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature . . . when submission to or rejection of this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individuals' work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment."