A supervisor made a comment to my work section group (that consists of about 20 people including one section manager, two supervisors for the two section units, and staff) that he was taught not to ask women their age or if they were pregnant. I later learned that he was saying this mockingly. But in the moment, I responded and said yeah, and don’t ask women when they are going to be pregnant/ have kids/ start a family. These comments were made in the group chat/ text during a virtual section meeting where the manager was asking a staff member (woman) her age on her birthday. She avoided answering but he kept asking.
The next day, we had an in person section meeting. The same supervisor was explaining why we need to cross train everyone so that we have backups for when a section staff member retires, goes on vacation or maternity leave, for example. However when he said maternity leave, he singled me out and said “except for -my name-“.
Without telling you my own thoughts or how I feel after this happened, can you tell me if this is considered sexual harassment in the work place? Thanks