Tham khảo tài liệu 'ethical choices and legal obligations_3', khoa học xã hội, hành chính - pháp luật phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Sexual Harassment Gender Discrimination and Paramour Preference 77 egregious conduct can support a claim of sexual harassment based on a hostile environment. 2 The fact that the law has the ability or the willingness to address only the most severe and pervasive 3 hostile work environments doesn t mean that only such major-league hostility should be a concern for managers. Thinking that way is a critical mistake first because small problems have a way of morphing into large ones and second because a woman may be treated inappropriately even if the federal courts don t give her a legal remedy. As we saw in Chapter 2 the reach of the law is not congruent with what s right and what s wrong even when the law such as Title VII was passed because it reflected a deep comprehension of the difference between ethically appropriate and inappropriate conduct. Two Kinds of Sexual Harassment The law against sexual harassment as we ve seen distinguishes between whether a woman is made to feel devalued because of a hostile work environment or threatened with sanctions if she rejects unwelcome advances. That s a valid distinction but if we want to understand what s wrong with sexual harassment I think there s another distinction that pinpoints two different ways in which women s rights are violated. on the one hand a woman can claim the right not to have her zone of privacy invaded even if no third person knows about it. On the other she has the right not to be ridiculed in public. Invasion of Privacy sexual activity and even sexual thought are generally matters we keep private out of the public eye. Indeed we call our relationships in which sexuality is a key component intimate relationships. The law takes this into account by saying that there is a zone of privacy regarding a person s sexuality into which the state is barred from entering. Thus in a classic case the Supreme Court struck down a Connecticut law that forbade the sale of contraceptives even to married The .
