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Sexual Harassment: An Evolving Creature

By Steven Rodriguez

Over the course of the 20th Century as women’s rights have improved in the United States, the issue of sexual harassment has grown increasingly prominent. Laws have been enacted to protect both men and women from unwanted sexual advances as well as any sort of sexual indiscretions. Along with laws and statutes protecting racial and ethnic minorities, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 included language to protect women in the workplace. A federal organization was started named the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and their task, among others, was to protect employees from sexual harassment in the work place. Sexual harassment is not simply a dirty old man asking his secretary for favors, rather it encompasses any of the following: The victim as well as the harasser may be a woman or a man...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on March 02, 2008 (boomark / email).