5 Tips For Dealing With Sexual Harassment

These 5 tips for dealing with sexual harassment will help you deal with a serious issue you might be facing. Whether in the work place, school, or even the home, sexual harassment is nothing to take lightly and should be taken seriously. These tips will help you put a stop to sexual harassment and keep you and those around you safe.

1. Trust Yourself: If you think that someone is sexually harassing you, do not try to rationalize against your instinct. It is important to take action and believe yourself rather than ignoring the issue. If you neglect to respond to the issue, the problem will not just magically stop.
   
2. Seek help: Look to figures of authority or local/national organization to help you with the sexual harassment. Do not let yourself deal with this alone, it is important to take this up with others who can support you and possibly stop the harassment. You may want to even seek help among friends and look for witnesses as well.
3. Respond: If you feel comfortable doing so, ask the harasser to cease their behavior. Do not do so if you think this might cause violent and/or other repercussions. You may feel more comfortable writing to the offender, whereby you could CC your HR rep and/or other authority figure(s).
4. Create a formal complaint: If the sexual harassment is occurring in a workplace or school environment, you can consider filing a formal complaint. This will likely be followed by the institution/business taking the necessary legal precautions to cease the behavior. This is one of the best tips you can follow, that may help stop the harassment all together.
5. Save aggression for self-defense: Unless necessary, do not become aggressive to resolve the sexual harassment. Try following other methods, such as contacting figures of authority, before resorting to violence. It may be enough to simply ask the individual to stop, or contact others for help, before putting yourself in danger.