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Sexual harassment vs. sexual favoritism

During f/y 2019, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") received 7,514 new charges of sexual harassment in the workplace. This represented 16.8% of the EEOC's total caseload.

Sexual favoritism is different from sexual harassment.

Please watch the following short video discussing sexual harassment as compared to sexual favoritism in the workplace:

The EEOC has published guideline on sexual favoritism.

The complete document is available here:

https://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/sexualfavor.html

Source:

https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/index.cfm

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