UNDERSTANDING SEXUAL HARASSMENT See how much you already know about sexual harassment!  Read the following situations and take a guess on whether you think sexual harassment has taken place.  Check the “yes” or “no” box.  (You can find the answers on Page 8.) 1. Sam and Annie have dinner one night after work.  Now, Sam has started to call repeatedly asking Annie out for dinner.  Annie doesn’t  want to have anything to do with Sam socially, is upset, and she has told him so.   Is Sam harassing Anne? 2. Nurse Susan is helping Dr. John examine an elderly patient.  Dr. John tells Susan that she smells pretty today and wants to know what type of perfume she uses.   Susan is flattered.  Is Dr. John sexually harassing Nurse Susan? 3. Mike and Bill are in the lobby of their workplace telling each other crude sexual jokes.  Dave walks by on his way to the elevator and overhears one of the jokes and he is offended.  Did Mike and Bill sexually harass Dave? 4. Jane is very attracted to her supervisor, Bill.  Since they are both single, she asked him out to dinner and a movie one Friday night.  They had a great time and ended up spending the night together.  Could this be considered sexual harassment? 5. Becky has Alzheimer’s Disease and she lives in an assisted living facility.  Becky’s a very sweet lady, but whenever the nursing assistants come to her room to help her get dressed,  Becky likes to rub their breasts.  Is this sexual harassment? 6. Jack, a lab tech, is always following Lucy around the unit commenting on her appearance, how beautiful she is, touching her in public and private, and invading her space.  He makes sexual comments to her like saying he wants to see her have sex with her husband.  She has asked him to stop it, but he won’t Lucy dreads coming to work anymore and is thinking of quitting her job.  Is Jack sexually harassing Lucy? 7. Tracy is a home health aide.  One of her clients is a disabled man in his twenties.   When she helps him with his personal care, he often talks about sex and asks her to touch him in intimate ways.  Now, Tracy dreads going to his house every day.   Is this client sexually harassing Tracy? Is It Sexual Harassment or Not? PAGE 2 © 2000 In the Know, Inc. YES      NO