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Legally, there are two main types of sexual harassment in a workplace. One is a systematic pattern of abuse, and the other type is egregious abuse.

As far as the types of manifestations, sexual harassment can take many forms at work. Here are some examples:

1. Female employees repeatedly complain of being groped by a coworker, and the supervisor does nothing about it. It is an employee with a good reputation at work with high seniority, and he simply claims they are making false claims to harass him.

2. A male supervisor asks a young new male employee at a computer business if he will have sex with him. He declines and is laid off 2 days later and told his services are no longer required.

3. A woman in an entry level position is offered a fast promotion track, and she takes it. The big boss starts making minor changes in her office arrangements. First, he moves her desk into his office. Then he starts making small wardrobe adjustment requests. Then he asks for sex. For sake of argument, now lets suppose she is engaged or happily married and she has no intention of fulfilling his request. He may keep pressuring her, make mild threats, and eventually demote or fire her.

4. A married man gets a job, and a female supervisor takes a liking to him, offers him a raise and a promotion, and then starts trying to seduce him. He resists her advances until things come to a head. Then out of the blue, he is called into the HR office and told she accused him of sexually harassing her.

5. A gay man takes a job and gets treated with open hostility. Coworkers sabotage his equipment, tell lies on him, spread gossip, tell homophobic jokes, write slurs on his locker, leave nasty memos on his desk, etc. He goes to management, who claim they will do something, and the harassment gets even worse, and a couple of the guys physically attack him for telling on them. He defends himself and is fired for fighting, but the ones who attacked him still get to work there.

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