It is crazy now & I am sooooo glad I don't work in the corporate environment anymore. I work for myself with another guy, who luckily has a depraved sense of humor like me.
I didn't think much of it at the time, but back in the late 1980's I worked for a large corporation, mostly make & our audit department was 95% male. The auditors were all pretty young, mid-20's and all single. One day, the only female auditor came in & was complaining that one of the executive of the company was on the elevator & was "looking" at her.
We would go out, traveling on audits for 3 weeks at a time. This girl would hang out & was basically "one of the guys" - not promiscuous, but would drink beer & join in what we were doing as a co-worker including raunchy jokes usually. She was just another worker & we treated her as such.
My point is, and it is only MY opinion, a lot of times it depends on whether the "harasser" is attractive or not.
Many times the complaints came from women, that, in my opinion, should have been happy to get attention from any man, even if it was imaginary. Full disclosure; I am female was when I was younger was very attractive. But contrary to a few accusations from other females, I got where I was by using my brains and hard work. The few times a man acted improperly towards me, I was quite capable of putting him in his place without helplessly going to management, lawyers and politicians for help.
However, telling an off color joke or comment didn’t bother me, and some women would make a case out of it if they heard such a thing. Interestingly, I heard worse things coming out of some women’s mouths. I had to call out a woman manager once to distributing raunchy porn one time, worse than anything I had seen a man ever do.
It’s not “a man’s world” a more.