Sexual Harassment of Men By Women!

Sexual Harassment of Men, by Woman is on the rise. The January 3, 2016 Detroit Free Press, outlines some statistics, here. As the article states:

                            According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the percentage of sexual harassment                             complaints filed by men has more than doubled over the last 25 years, from 8% in 1990 to 17% in 2015.  That                             year, 1,165 men complained about sexual harassment, compared to 5,656 women.

                            Although the number of men filing claims has leveled off over the past five years, an average of 1,200 men claim                              sexual  harassment every year in American workplaces. Legal experts believe the number could be higher                             because there's still a stigma attached to men complaining about women's sexual advances.

                            "People are surprised that men would complain about this, and that could be a mistake," said Ernest Haffner, an                             EEOC attorney  in Washington, D.C., who tracks harassment in the workplace. "Employers should take                             harassment seriously, regardless of whether it's a man or a woman. They all need to be treated the same."

The law, of course, treats sexual harassment of men the same as for woman. Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, 490 U.S. 228 (1989); Baskerville v. Culligan Int'l, 50 F. 3d 428 (7th Cir. 1995).

Mitchell Rubinstein