Immigrant Women Workers

Bernice Yeung’s In A Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against American’s Most Vulnerable Workers exposes the underbelly of economies filled with employers who take advantage of immigrant women’s need to earn a basic living. When these women find the courage to speak up, Yeung reveals, they are too often met by apathetic bosses and underresourced government agencies. But In a Day’s Work also tells a story of resistance, introducing a group of courageous allies who challenge dangerous and discriminatory workplace conditions alongside aggrieved workers—and win. Moving and inspiring, this book will change our understanding of the lives of immigrant women.

In a Day’s Work

Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry (2014)

Restaurant Opportunities Centers and Forward Together, The Glass Floor: Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry (2014)

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By looking at the rate and types of sexual harassment experienced by current and former restaurant workers through national surveys and rigorous analysis, the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United and Forward Together provide the most accurate picture to date of sexual harassment in the restaurant industry in The Glass Floor: Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry.

Frontline Special: Rape in the Fields (2013)

PBS Frontline: Rape in the Fields (2013)

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FRONTLINE and Univision partner to tell the story of the hidden price many migrant women working in America’s fields and packing plants pay to stay employed and provide for their families. This investigation is the result of a yearlong reporting effort by veteran FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman, the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, and the Center for Investigative Reporting.

Confirmation (2016)


Kerry Washington as Anita Hill
Confirmation takes a look behind the curtain of Washington politics, depicting the explosive 1991 Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination hearings where Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment.”
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