SEXUAL HARASSMENT

As a Navy instructor, make sure you maintain high standards of honesty, integrity, impartiality, and conduct in dealing with all personnel regardless of sex. Sexual harassment is unacceptable conduct that undermines the integrity of the instructor-student relationship. The Navy has a longstanding policy of zero tolerance of sexual harassment.

Sexual harassment is a form of discrimination involving unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when the following occurs:

• Submission to or rejection of such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of a person's job, pay, or career
  
• Submission to or rejection of such conduct by a person is used as a basis for career or employment decisions affecting this person
  
• Such conduct interferes with an individual's performance or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment

Prevention of sexual harassment is the responsibility of all personnel. As an instructor, however, you are in a particularly important position to prevent sexual harassment. Take an active role in educating your students on the seriousness of such behavior and immediately confront any conduct that may be construed as inappropriate. When confronted about inappropriate behavior, individuals often say they were "only joking" or they "didn't mean anything by it". Sexual harassment is not a joke.

A positive command/classroom climate, where behavior is professional and appropriate and where everyone up and down the chain treats his or her subordinates and peers with courtesy and respect, will do more than any other action to eliminate sexual harassment.

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