What is sexual harassment?

Harassment (typically of a woman) in a workplace, or other professional or social situation, involving the making of unwanted sexual advances or obscene remarks.

Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when either:

• The conduct is made as a term or condition of an individual's employment, education, living environment or participation in a University community.
• The acceptance or refusal of such conduct is used as the basis or a factor in decisions affecting an individual's employment, education, living environment, or participation in a University community.
• The conduct unreasonably impacts an individual's employment or academic performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive environment for that individual's employment, education, living environment, or participation in a University community.

Workplace harassment (employment discrimination) consisting of unwelcome and repeated sexual advances, comments, looks, physical contact, stereotyping, request for sexual favors; or any such act not clearly sexual in nature when (1) submission to such act is (whether explicitly or implicitly) made a term or condition of employment, (2) submission to rejection of such conduct is used as a .

the sexual harassment is to break the right of any colleague you work with him / her by any way such as bad seeing by eyes , talking on him / her by impolite way , handle him / her by bad way , speak with him / her by high voice & not respects him / her in dealing .

To understand the full extend of any type harassment or discrimination one have to explore other criteria and not only look at the definition laid out in plain sight - you have to scratch the surface and have a closer look.  Harassment of any nature must be viewed with consideration to placement, culture, religion and orientation.  The sensitivity of the subject is based on personal boundaries and respect for each other. 

Sexual harrasment is harrasing somebody specially opposite sex for sexual satisfaction in return of favour. Its verbal or physical unwelcome sexual conduct with opposite sex. In very general if you expect sexual favour from someone in return of favour is termed as sexual harrasment it can be physical or verbal.

AGREE WITH ALL ANSWERS ......................

Agree with the good answers This kind of harrasment comes from some people who have mighty in the company , and it deepens. However, alhamdulillah I've not seen that in the companies I used to work and the current company. However, there might be but hidden.