Unraveling, Understanding, and Complying
With Sexual Harassment Laws Today

In 1986, the case of Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, was presented to the United States Supreme Court. In its first ruling on sexual harassment, the court changed our working environment forever when they determined that sexual harassment, including a hostile work environment, was an illegal form of employment discrimination (Felder 306).
The Civil Rights Act, passed in 1964 by Lyndon Johnson, was the first federal law that would eventually make discrimination against women illegal. It is interesting that when the original civil rights bill was introduced it did not include discrimination against gender. According to Lynne Eisaguirre, author of Sexual Harassment, "Discrimination based on gender is attached to the bill at the last moment, when conservative Southern opponents introduced an amendment prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex; they assume that adding sexuality equality is so......

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Title: Sexual Harassment
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