i need some help. i can not find the information i was looking for on the internet. I feel that i have been gender discriminated and harrassed at work. I work in the prison system for the state of kansas. An incident happened with the inmates. One night the Sgt told me that an inmate told him that i was flirting with him. when i went to tell the sgt that that was bull and i am going to just forget about it, i am not going to let that inmates alligation bother me because the inmate was lying. (The inamte had just yelled very loudly at another CO and i witnessed it. and he knew i was going to say something to the Sgt and that he would be in trouble, so i felt that the inmate was trying to discredit me before I dealt with his yelling) and , he, the sgt stood up and cut off what i was saying and literally got into my face and started yelling and told me that he was the Sgt and i was just a new CO and he is telling me this and we are not going to just "forget about it" i then said something and he says " do not interupt me, and i told him that he had interupted me and i then was told to go to the cpt office. which i did. the Cpt told me the Sgt had been in a bad mood all day, that he was wrong etc. and i wrote a narrative on the incident. the incident was forwarded to EEO.......... which leads me to the following night. I was working the same cell house 3-11 again but with a different Sgt. late into the night about 910 the Sgt came to me and told me that "I" was talking to the inmates too much. that i am not "allowed" to talk to them. Specifically stating "you are a female it is not okay, If you were a male there would not be a problem. " and I said that i have had the same training as you and the rules apply to me the same as any "male" and my "conversations" were very legit and nothing more...... so i then wrote a narrative on this incident. and filed a complaint with EEO myself.
My question is does this fall under sexual harrassment or gender discrimantion. what should i do? I was going to quit because the Sgt's have discredited me and belittled me in front of the inmates two nights in a row and i feel that my safety is an issue now. I beleive the inmates see this as though "they" do not have to listen to me because i am female, because this is the point that was made.

