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11 Or. Rev. Int'l L. 43 (2009)
Law and Policy Issues on Sexual Harassment in China: Comparative Perspectives

handle is hein.journals/porril11 and id is 47 raw text is: D. K. SRIVASTAVA* AND MINKANG GU** Law and Policy Issues on Sexual Harassment in China: Comparative Perspectives*** I. Introduction ........................................................................ 43 1I. Sociological Background .................................................... 45 1Ii. Judicial Background ............................................................ 49 IV . The Law in China ............................................................... 53 V. Impact of Chinese Judicial Decisions and Legislation ...... 54 VI. Com mon Law M odels ........................................................ 59 A . H ong K ong ................................................................... 59 B . India ............................................................................. . . 62 V II. The W ay Forw ard ............................................................... 65 I INTRODUCTION Sexual harassment involves unwanted behavior of a sexual nature. Men have subjected women to such behavior for centuries in China because women have historically held an inferior position in Chinese society.' Sexual harassment is an example of how men in positions of * Visiting Professor, School of Law. City University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Advisor, O.P. Jindal Global University & Jindal Global Law School, India: LL.B. and LL.M., 1964 and 1967, Banaras; Ph.D., 1980, Monash. ** Associate Professor and Associate Dean, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong; LL.B., Master of Law, 1984 and 1987, East China University for Political Science and Law; Master of European Business Law, 2001. Aix-Marseilles University; Doctor of Jurisprudence, 1996, Willamette University College of Law. *** This Article has emerged from the research project SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN HONG KONG, MAINLAND CHINA AND INDIA: PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS THROUGH TORTIOUS REMEDIES (No.7001889) funded by City University of Hong Kong. I See generally William L. Parish, Aniruddha Das & Edward 0. Laumann, Sexual Harassment of Women in Urban China, 35 ARCHIVES SEXUAL BEHAV. 411 (2006). available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/6041630566j8mukl/fulltext.pdf.