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Article: Sexual harassment doesn't respect school boundaries.
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- Business Forum
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 California State University, Los Angeles. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Sexual harassment in the workplace is increasing in the public eye. The more lurid examples - including the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas and President Bill Clinton-Paula Jones controversies - created instant headlines. But the seriousness of the matter is evident from the large number of sexual harassment cases that don't make the news - more than 12,500 made to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 1993 alone. In fact, the number of harassment claims more than doubled from 1990 to 1993 (Figure One).(1) The purposes of this article are to help university and college administrators create an environment that is as free as possible from sexual harassment, to ...