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he or she belongs to a protected class,
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she or he was subjected to unwelcome sexual harassment,
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the harassment was based on sex,
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the harassment affected a term, condition, or privilege of
employment, and
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the employer knew or should have known of the harassment and
failed to take remedial action.
Conduct sufficient to create a hostile working environment
must be severe or pervasive. A sexually objectionable environment
must be both subjectively and objectively offensive. Whether an
environment is hostile or abusive depends on a totality of circumstances,
focusing on factors such as the frequency of the conduct, the severity
of the conduct, the degree to which the conduct is physically threatening
or humiliating, and the degree to which the conduct unreasonably
interferes with an employee's work performance.