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How does the law on sexual harassment deprive men of fundamental rights

The law looks at harassment from the viewpoint of the so called victim. There is no check on whether the behavior is reasonable. OK for a legal case against the company there might need to be. But, the employer has no way of telling whether the courts will rule in a given case, so the employer errs on the side of caution, sack a man and avoid any risk.

There is no approach suggested within the law for how the employer should ascertain what a reasonable woman would perceive. Worse, the courts have ruled that the HR manager does not have to acquire sufficient evidence to convince a jury. So, in practice the so called reasonable woman standard, when applied in the HR managers office, becomes merely "lets remove any possible risk"

The courts in any event slant heavily towards the womans side. And the employer, in order to avoid risk of lawsuits err even more heavily, sometimes drastically so.