Despite its seriousness, sexual harassment prevention training inspires entire (albeit, tongue-in-cheek) episodes in popular American television shows, including The Office and NCIS, and memorable skits in many other venues, including Saturday Night Live. With all of this attention, it is easy to believe that sexual harassment prevention training is no longer needed.
Unfortunately, the evidence is quite clear that sexual harassment in the workplace has not ended. Volumes of news articles, like these in Sports Illustrated and on the PBS website are posted weekly regarding different workplace sexual harassment cases. Further, research evidence from a number of scholars only seems to highlight that these publicized cases represent a small subset of the actual amount of sexual harassment happening.