You don't have to wait for a sexual proposition or molestation to report sexual harassment. Sexual misconduct is whenever an authority figure is at least sexually suggestive with a subordinate, violating profesional boundaries. The power dynamic creates a hostile environment where the subordinate feels coerced to submit, to tolerate and/or participate in their authority's inappropriate behavior. The subordinate is concerned about the authority figure retaliating if they rejected their authority figure's sexual advances. If they're making you uncomfortable, you don't have to justify to yourself how you feel about their behavior. The only thing you have to at work is the job you were hired to do; them asking for contact outside your job description, and/or their job description, is an abuse of power.
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"Sexual Misconduct includes: Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Exploitation, and Stalking."
https://sites.sju.edu/support/sexual-misconduct/
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"Sexual misconduct is a non-legal term used informally to describe a broad range of behaviors, which may or may not involve harassment. For example, some companies prohibit sexual relationships between coworkers, or between an employee and their boss, even if the relationship is consensual."
https://www.rainn.org/articles/sexual-harassment
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For more terms & definitions visit:
- https://www.aauw.org/issues/education/sexual-misconduct/
- https://wit.edu/title-ix/definitions
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