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Article: Sexual Harassment in Public Places: Experiences of Canadian Women.(Statistical Data Included)
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- The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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Sexual harassment of women existed long before the Industrial Revolution (Fitzgerald and Shullman, 1993: 5) but it has been defined as a social problem only since the 1960s. Both academics and legal experts have focussed mainly on harassment in the workplace and universities (see Welsh, 1999 for a recent review of the literature). Similarly, federal guidelines in both Canada and the U.S. construe sexual harassment as sexual discrimination in employment - that is, a civil rights violation, not a criminal offense (Canadian Human Rights Commission, 1983; U.S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, 1988; see also Gruber and Smith, 1995: 550; Canadian Human Rights ...