Casual Dining & Sexual Harassment
Next
Time Someone Says Women Aren’t Victims Of Sexual Harassment, Show Them This which
is published by tickld.com talks about the different ways that women are
sexually harassed by men and how the men respond. This comic strip talks about the different
types of sexual harassment and also about how the author feels males should
respond to these different forms if they see it happening. Some things it addressed was rape, slut
shaming, groping, how men feel the need to comment on women’s bodies or their appearances
(comic #6) and many more ways. Towards
the end of this article it talks about how men should react when they see these
things happening to women.
You
may think do people really get sexually harassed in restaurants? That would
never happen. The sad reality is that it
does. “A West Virginia restaurant received
a request that their servers should show more skin.” This request is most made by men looking to
see more when they go out to eat. Lots
of servers claim that they will make more on tips in a night based on what they
wear. If it is something that shows a
little more skin the statistics are that they will almost double their tips
compared to if they are covered up and showing very little skin. Does every restaurant allow people to wear
what they want? Or is this more prevalent in bars where they waitresses are
college students who don’t think twice about showing a little more. I think the requests that customers make
about how your employees should dress make a difference based on what kind of restaurant
you are trying to run. I found that the
people who work at hooters make pretty good money in tips because they show a
little more so it in a sense pleases the customer.
In an
article I found women are more likely to work in establishments where the tips
are higher. This doesn’t mean they are
making the same as men; they are still making less and have to put up with more
for less money. 37% of all sexual
harassment cases are women. Considering
that only 7% of the working women in the world work restaurants, that number is
quite high. How much more often do you
think women who are servers get sexually harassed than the women who work desk
jobs? The answer is women who work in the
food industry are 5 times more likely to have to deal with sexual assault.
How
are business owners of these casual dining places responsible for keeping their
workers safe from the sexual harassment that occurs within their establishment,
you may ask? There are sexual harassment
policies built into businesses across the world but restaurant visitors believe
that this only applies to workers can’t harass other workers, they are
wrong. The workers are protected by
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The businesses are responsible for any harassment that occurs within
their establishment to their employees whether it’s employee to employee or
employee to customer. This includes
comments, implications of sex, being touched inappropriately, and forced into
sex or viewing sexual objects or pictures.
Here’s the catch they are not found responsible for the sexual
harassment unless they know about it. So
if you keep it a secret and try to report it later after you are fired it doesn’t
count because the employer was not aware of the situation. In every state in the US if you have more
than 15 employees you are required to carry a sexual harassment plan to protect
your employees from the danger of sexual harassment in the workplace.
To
conclude Next Time Someone Says Women
Aren’t Victims Of Sexual Harassment, Show Them This. There are many cases where women are
sexually harassed in the work place or expected to do things to please their
customers that are morally wrong. In a
sense though it is up to the restaurant as to what they expect their employees
to deal with well working there. Since
each establishment can have its own sexual harassment policy no two places are
the same, so make sure you know what you are getting into as far as policy wise
well thinking about sexual harassment.
I think you did a great job of getting the points across fairly well. It was informative and did a great job of showing your point of view. This was a well constructed blog post.
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