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Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that occurs under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.�

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) defines sexual harassment as �unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitutes sexual harassment when:

• Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual's employment;
• Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting such individual; or
• Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work performance by creating an intimidating hostile or sexually offensive work environment.�

The EEOC goes on to explain that both the victim and the harasser can be either a woman or a man, and the victim does not have to be of the opposite sex. The harasser can be the victim's supervisor, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or someone who is not in the same organizational unit, such as an employee in another office, a client or a customer.�

The language used in this definition has formed the basis for most state laws prohibiting sexual harassment.�

Furthermore, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits sexual harassment in education. For more information on prohibition of sexual harassment under Title IX, refer here.�