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Understanding Federal Civil Rights - Gender-Based Harassment Guidelines

Learn about Title IX and gender-based harassment to prevent sex discrimination and create a safe environment. Explore what constitutes a hostile environment and how to respond effectively. Contact us for more info.

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Understanding Federal Civil Rights - Gender-Based Harassment Guidelines

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  1. Federal Civil Rights Title IX and Gender Based Harassment The Equity Alliance at ASU

  2. What We Hope You Learn

  3. Pattern

  4. What is OCR?

  5. Sex Discrimination

  6. Questions

  7. II. Sexual Harassment

  8. Constrained Ability to Participate

  9. Gender-based Harassment

  10. Gender-Based Harassment

  11. Prevention or correction of sex discrimination, including sexual harassment includes

  12. Assessing Sexually Harassing Conduct

  13. What Constitutes a Hostile Environment?

  14. Has a Hostile Environment been Created?

  15. Draw Commonsense Distinctions

  16. Harassing Conduct

  17. The type, frequency, and duration of the conduct

  18. The type, frequency, and duration of the conduct • Conduct that is not severe will not create a hostile environment. • e.g., a comment by one student to another student that she has a nice figure. Indeed, depending on the circumstances, this may not even be conduct of a sexual nature. 

  19. The identity of and relationship between the alleged harasser and the subject or subjects of the harassment.

  20. The Identity of and Relationship between Harasser and Harassed

  21. Common Sense and Reasonable Judgment It is the totality of the circumstances in which the behavior occurs that is critical in determining whether a hostile environment exists. Consequently, in using the factors discussed previously to evaluate incidents of alleged harassment, it is always important to use common sense and reasonable judgment in determining whether a sexually hostile environment has been created.

  22. With the law in mind Responding

  23. Intervening

  24. Be in Touch Joetta.gonzales@asu.edu Elizabeth.kozleski@asu.edu

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