SEXUAL HARASSMENT: AN ILLEGAL ACT

F. TORRES HIGH SCHOOL

MAXENE DIANE N. MENDOZA

IX- BENEVOLENVE

JANUARY2018
Sexual Harassment: an illegal act

A Research Paper

Submitted to:

Mrs. Leonora A. Provido

of

F. Torres High School

As a Partial Fulfillment

Of the Requirements

in

Englsih IX

Maxene Diane N. Mendoza

IX- Benevolence

January 5, 2018
 INTRODUCTION

A. Significance of the Study

Prevention of harassment in the work place is both an international and national concern.
It is internationally agreed that sexual harassment is a form of gender discrimination and is recognized
as a violation of human rights. Sexual harassment at work can happen to any worker at any workplace;
offices, factories, plantations, and farms, small and large enterprises. (ilo.org)

B. Statement of the Problem

This research paper proposal is about “Sexual Harassment: an illegal act”. Specifically, it
aims to answer the following questions

1. What is sexual harassment?

2. Where does sexual harassment came from?

3. What do we need to learn about sexual harassment?

4. What are the different types of sexual harassment?

5. Why is sexual harassment an illegal act?

6. How to avoid sexual harassment?

7. Why sexual harassment happens?

8. Where does sexual harassment happen?

9. How does sexual harassment make a person feel?

10. To whom sexual harassment can happen?

11. What are the differences between harassment and flirting?

12. What are the behaviors considered as sexual harassment?

13. What are the things experienced by the students that can be considered as sexual harassment in
school?

14. What are the health concerns related to sexuality?

15. How does sexuality and civil rights related?

16. What are the health concerns involve deliberate sexual acts?

17. What is sex discrimination?

18. What are the origins of sex discrimination?

19. What is sexuality transmitted disease?

20. How STD can be transmitted?

C. Definition of Terms

The following words are defined for beter understanding of this research paper;

1. Retaliate- to repay in kind. (Merriam Webster, 2010, 200)

2. Coercion- the act, process or power of coercing. (Merriam Webster, 2010, 31)

3. Broadly- made by lack of restraint delicacy or subtlety. (Merriam Webster, 2010, 25)

4. Massachusetts- state on the Atlantic in the northeastern U.S. (Merriam Webster, 2010, 132)

5. Colleague- an associate or co-worker typically in a profession or in a civil. (Merriam Webster, 2010,

39)

6. Amendment- the process of formally altering or adding to a document or record. (User- Friendly
English Dictionary, 2008, 8)

7. Federal- a formed by a compact between political units. (Merriam Webster, 2010, 62)

8. Prohibits- to prevent from doing something. (User- Friendly English Dictionary, 2008, 149)

9. Taboo- banned or grounds of morality tase. (Merriam Webster, 2010, 331)

10. Compliment- an expression of admiration or warm approval. (User- Friendly Dictionary, 2008, 30)

11. Degrading- to scale down in desirability or ralability. (English Dictionary, 2009, 45)

12. Graffiti- to deface with graffiti. (Merriam Webster, 2010, 89)

13. Precendent- prior in time, order, arrangement or significance. (User- Friendly Dictionary, 2008, 151)

14. Contraception- deliberate prevention of conception or impregnation. (User- Friendly Dictionary,

2008, 37)

15, Instrinsically- in an intrinsic manner. (User- Friendly Dictionary, 2008, 100)