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Article: For Worker and Employer, Sexual Harassment Is a New Area of Law
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- The Washington Post
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- December 23, 1996
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It began as a joke during the floor debate in the House of
Representatives over the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Proponents of the
bill were pushing for a ban on employment discrimination on the
basis of race, creed, color and national origin. Opponents
sarcastically suggested they might as well add sex to the list of
discrimination bans, since they had included everything else.
No one is laughing today. Sexual discrimination became part of
the 1964 law and the pervasive problem of sexual harassment now is
the fastest-growing area of discrimination complaints in the
workplace.
This year alone has seen an explosion of prominent sexual
harassment charges, from Mitsubishi Motor ...