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In the language of engineering, stress is a force that deforms the body. In biology and medicine, the term usually refers to a process in the body, to outline the organization to adapt to all the influences, changes, Deman and strains to which it is exposed. This plan swings into action, for example, when a person is assaulted in the street, but when someone is exposed to toxic chemicals or heat or extreme cold. It is not only physical exposures that activate this plan, however, mental and social ones, do as well. For example, if we are insulted by his boss, recalled an unpleasant experience, is expected to achieve something we do not believe we are capable, or if, with or without cause, we are concerned about our work or marriage.

There is something common to all these cases in the way the body tries to adapt. This common denominator is stress. Stress is a stereotype in the responses of the body influences, demands or strains. A certain level of stress is always found in the body, like to establish a rough parallel, a country maintan some military preparedness, even in peacetime. Sometimes this preparation is increased, sometimes with good reason and sometimes without.

In this way, the level of stress affects the rate at which the wear process will take place on the body. The more specific gas, the higher the speed at which the motor body is driven, and therefore the faster the fuel is exhausted and the engine wears. Another metafhor also applies: if you burn a candle with a high flame at both ends, it will emit brighter light, but also burn more quickly. A certain amount of fuel is necessary, otherwise the engine will stop, the candle goes out, the body would be dead. Thus, the problem is not that the body has a stress reaction, but the degree of stress he is submitted may be too large. This stress response varies from one minute to another even within a single individual, the variation depending in part on the nature and condition of the body and partly from external influences and demand that the body is presentation.

Sometimes it is difficult to determine if the stress in a given situation is good or bad. Take, for example, exhausted athlete on the winner’s stand, or the newly appointed executive, but the stress in the triangle. Both have achieved their objectives. In terms of pure achievement, we should say that their results were well worth the effort. Much of torment might have been necessary to obtain to date, involving many years of trainning and endless overtime, usually to the detriment of family life. From a medical standpoint performance can be considered to have burned their candles at both ends. The result could be physiological breakdown of the athlete can a muscle or two and the executive of hypertension or a heart attack.

Historically, the sexual harassment of female workers has been ignored, denied, made to appear trivial, tolerated and even supported by implication, to be held responsible for the woman herself (MacKinnon, 1978). Its victims are almost exclusively women, and she has been a problem since women first sold their work outside the home.

Sexual harassment is not an innocent flirtation nor the mutual expression attraction between men and women. Rather, sexual harassment is a job stressor a threat to a woman psychological and physical integrity and security, in a context in which it has little control because of the risk of retaliation and fear of the loss of their liver hood poses. As with other workplace stressor, sexual harassment can be harmful effects for the woman who can be serious and have such, is regarded as workplace health and safety issues (Bernstein 1994).

If a woman directed it features could involve sexual comments and seductive behavior, prepositions and pressure for dates, touching, sexual assault through the use of threats or bribery, and even physical assault and rape. In the case of hostile environment, that’s probably more threatening and demeaning to women, pornographic or sexually implicit posters and crude sexual gesture, and so on. You can access these characteristics which sometimes sexual harassment is called, which includes adding more sexist remarks that demean the dignity of women.
Even if employees are involved, sexual harassment might be more manageable for the woman and can be difficult very stressful for them. These situations can occure where there are many more men than women in a working group, created a hostile work environment and the line is male (Gutek 1985, Fitzgerald and Ormerod 1993).
The extent of sexual harassment is difficult to determine because no woman can label it exactly and  there is underrepporting. Sexual harassment can have negative health effects that are sometimes quite serious. If the harassment is difficult, as in rape or attempted rape, women are seriously traumatized. Even where sexual harassment is less severe, women have mental problems: they can be depressed, anxious, guilty and ashamed, self-confident and less rervous. You may have physical symptoms such as abdominal pain, headache or nausea.

Prevention is the key to combating sexual harassment. These include the following: a clear anti-harassment policy that is communicated effectively, special education and training for managers and supervisors, to a designated ombudsman with complaints, formal complaints procedure and alternatives for subject and disciplinary treatment of those who deal the policies failed.