The Legal Perils of Workplace Romance
From today’s San Diego Union-Tribune: Happy Valentine’s Day. Last February, the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) released a survey that found over a third of American workers have been,…
Victims of Sexual Misconduct on the Job Testify Against Forced Arbitration
From today’s New York Times: Former employees of the technology company Afiniti, the broadcaster CBS and the luxury giant LVMH shared accounts of sexual abuse, rape and harassment with a…
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“An NDA Was Designed to Keep Me Quiet” – How Pinterest Undermines Equity in the Workplace
From today’s New York Times: Last March, I sat in a lawyer’s conference room and watched as my corporate account at Pinterest was suddenly shut off. For almost two years,…
Opinion: The ‘Manly’ Jobs Problem
From today’s New York Times: Insults, groping — even assault. That kind of sexual harassment came along with being one of the very few women on a construction site, in a…
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Women and Power in the Workplace
From today’s New York Times: “Revolution will come in a form we cannot yet imagine,” the critical theorists Fred Moten and Stefano Harney wrote in their 2013 essay “The Undercommons,”…
Al Franken will resign from Senate after more allegations of sexual improprieties
From today’s LA Times: Al Franken announced Thursday he will resign his Senate seat, falling to a whirlwind of sexual misconduct allegations like those that have enmeshed other politicians, business leaders and media figures…
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) to resign amid many accusations of sexual harassment
From today’s LA Times: Rep. John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, the longest-serving member of the House of Representatives, resigned Tuesday after his support among fellow Democrats collapsed amid accusations of sexual harassment by several…
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Sexual harassment claims in Congress have been buried from public oversight
From today’s Buzzfeed by P. McLeod and L. Villa: Michigan Rep. John Conyers, a Democrat and the longest-serving member of the House of Representatives, settled a wrongful dismissal complaint in…
On Sex Discrimination, Men at Work Wonder if They’ve Overstepped
From Nov. 10 New York Times by Nellie Bowles: It has been a confusing season for America’s working men, as the conversation around workplace harassment reveals it to be a nationwide…
Actresses—and Millions More Workers—Have No Federal Sexual Harassment Protections
From today’s Nation by Bryce Covert: After the New York Times dropped its bombshell investigation into decades of sexual harassment perpetrated by film producer Harvey Weinstein, and the New Yorker followed up with allegations of not just harassment…