Harassment Prevention Quotes

When employers are faced with substantial penalties for discrimination, then they'll begin to do something.

If you run a website where people can congregate, you have a moral responsibility to make sure that community is not harassed.

My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.

We need to turn bystanders and enablers into allies. Ninety-eight percent of United States corporations right now have sexual harassment training policies. Seventy percent have prevention programs. But still, overwhelmingly, bystanders and witnesses don't come forward. In 2016, the Harvard Business Review called it the "bystander effect." And yet -- remember 9/11. Millions of times we've heard, "If you see something, say something." Imagine how impactful that would be if we carried that through to bystanders in the workplace regarding sexual harassment -- to recognize and interrupt these incidences; to confront the perpetrators to their face; to help and protect the victims. This is my shout-out to men: we need you in this fight. And to women, too -- enablers to allies.

I don't think anybody should be subject to any sort of harassment in any way, shape, or form.

I've tried, in my own life, to speak up when I see harassment occurring. But I want to acknowledge that there are probably situations and instances where I could have done more. I think that's an acknowledgment that all men need to make.

The popping of bubblegum discourages the most determined lecher.

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.

I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image.

Non-criminal sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for the virtuous woman except in the rarest of cases.

We need to stand together with all of the victims [ of sexual harassment] and make sure they are not silenced.

But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something.

Once, I was coming back from school, and there was this guy who was eve-teasing me and my friend. I had a Milton water bottle that I flung it at his face. My dad told me if you are in a crowded place and a guy eve-teases, you should make noise. I did exactly that and got people on the road to beat up the guy.

Many women are harassed, one in three between the ages of 18 and 34, by one poll. And we need to figure out if, in fact, we are going to enable them to come forward with their complaints, as opposed to enabling harassers and abusers to continue their behavior.

To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.

I'm accustomed to being harassed.

I want to make the work space more dignified and safe for women.

All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.

Every company should have zero tolerance on sexual harassment so that victims feel secure while taking a stand.

No one has the right to harass anyone. I fully support the #MeToo movement.

We need to first clearly establish what our modern rules for behavior are and make sure those are clearly understood and communicated. That empowers both the people who experience harassment on any level, but also the people who are the perpetrators of harassment to absolutely understand what behavior is crossing the line.

When an incident is reported, HR almost always starts from a place of disbelief. They request evidence and ask for proof. But if HR is investigating a sexual harassment case within the company, it is their duty as HR to protect their employees. That is the sentiment that has to shift.

We need more women in higher roles, because the tone for sexual harassment would no doubt be different.

We have to start calling sexual harassment out because only then can we start to make progress on it.

Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.