The number of supervisors in the American workforce demanding quid pro quo sexual arrangements from their subordinates, for subordinates to acquire or maintain employment or employment benefits, is staggering. The degrading, humiliating sexual acts that women are subjected to, to satisfy the salacious desires of their supervisors, or lose their jobs, is unconscionable.
Women in the American workforce are being sexually harassed, sexually assaulted, and raped at an alarming rate. The torment that women go through in a hostile work environment, on a daily basis, is almost unimaginable .
The suffering that women experience when subjected to workplace harassment is almost incomprehensible for people who haven’t had to endure such torment, having to go to work while knowing, or even worse – not knowing, what lays ahead each day at the hands of her tormentor, her own supervisor.
Many women, out of fear, never come forward to report the sexual harassment, and end up, out of desperation, acquiescing in to becoming sexual playthings for their unscrupulous supervisors.
At the forefront of the war on sexual harassment is the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), who is tasked with investigating the numerous reports of sexual harassment, which include quid pro quo harassment, hostile environment harassment, sexual assault, and rape. The EEOC obtained $56.6 million in monetary benefits for victims of sexual harassment in 2018 alone, but this is considered to be only the tip of the iceberg, as most victims of sexual harassment never come forward to file a report due to fear of retaliation. The fiscal year 2018 data also show that retaliation continued to be the most frequently filed charge filed with the EEOC. The occurrence of sexual harassment in the workplace is increasing, as the EEOC data show fiscal year 2018 to have a 13.6 percent increase from fiscal year 2017.
