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Article: Sexual harassment: a growing workplace dilemma.
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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THE LAW prohibiting sexual harassment is nothing new. Such behavior has been forbidden since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but it was not until 1991--when Anita Hill alleged harassment by a Supreme Court nominee--that public attention really focused on what constitutes sexually harassing behavior. As a result, awareness may be at an all-time high, but so is confusion about what this means in the workplace. Despite numerous well-meaning efforts by employers, sexual harassment litigation continues to skyrocket.
According to a 1994 Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) survey, the human resource professionals who indicated that their departments handled one or ...