AJ Clark

Laura Metzger

Composition 1302

26 November 2014

“Sexual Harassment in the workplace is endemic” talks about the invisibility of the victims of sexual harassment. It uses research from The Everyday Sexism Project, claiming that there is almost 10,000 reports of sexual harassment in the workplace alone! There are numerous testimonies throughout the article about many of the injustices that employees face in the workplace. It also brings to light that not only are many people who are harassed are punished when they complain about the harassment.

The worst part about harassment is that if nobody does anything about it, it just keeps happening. When people laugh it off as just a crude joke, there is no punishment for the harasser. The harasser just gets to continue his or her inappropriate behavior. If the harassed tries to seek justice, but they are punished instead, the injustice continues. It just discourages the harassed into allowing it to continue, making the harassed invisible.

Bates, Laura. "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Is Endemic." The Gaurdian. Thegaurdian.com, 23 Oct. 2013. Web. 26 Nov. 2014.