Women are reported to be struggling
with sexual harassment at the workplace, with a majority of them suffering in silence due to
perpetrators who usually hold high positions in organisations and government.

Surveys conducted by researchers have shown that women are extensively sexually harassed
and objectified by men in the work place.
Sexual harassment in the workplace is generally defined as a form of discrimination that includes any uninvited comments, conduct, or behaviour regarding sex, gender, or sexual orientation.
Gender Commission chairperson Margret Mukahanana-Sangarwe, speaking at the launch 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based
Violence campaign under the national theme ‘‘Creating Zero Tolerance to Sexual Harassment
in the Workplace’’ revealed that many women do not even understand what it infers.
“Basically sexual harassment refers to any sex-based behaviour that is unwelcome or offensive to the recipient made by a person who knows reasonably that such attention is unwanted,” she said.
All employees of any position from management to entry-level are susceptible to sexual harassments, but women are profusely victimised.Daily News