Weekly Bog Post # 24

Weekly Blog Post

Issues In America

UPDATE:

For the past week in class students have been given the opportunity to study sexual harassment in public and workplace. This week a mock-trial assignment was given where each student makes up a legal team in order to defend a sexual harassment case. So far this has been a very beneficial process .. it allows for students to get experience being an attorney as well as following a case and presenting points publicly. The process has shown me that sexual harassment is a huge problem. No matter how small or large the incident may be it happens on a daily basis. I have personally experienced this in the workplace and its not a comfortable thing to confront HR about, but it needs to be done. In my groups assigned case we are defending a woman who has been made uncomfortable in the work place by her co-worker making crude comments towards her as well as posting pictures that made the plaintiff uneasy about attending work. Even though many people would describe the woman as "sensitive" she was still being harassed and no one was taking charge. I am very excited to prosecute this case and hopefully serve up justice. The moral is that no one should be made uncomfortable at all led alone sexually harassed in the workplace and these incidents must be reported to higher authority.