Founded in 2013, Know Your IX is a survivor- and youth-led project of Advocates for Youth that aims to empower students to end sexual and dating violence in their schools.
Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co., 824 F. Supp. 847 (D. Minn. 1993).
Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co., 824 F. Supp. 847 (D. Minn. 1993) was the first successful class action lawsuit. The movie North Country was based on this case.
Lois Jenson, the lead plaintiff in the case.
New Illinois Sexual Harassment Law
In August of 2019, the Illinois governor passed a new sexual harassment law, strengthening protections in several areas: Continue reading “New Illinois Sexual Harassment Law”
New York State Sexual Harassment Law 2019
In 2019, New York state passed and Governor Cuomo signed a new sexual harassment law. The law: Continue reading “New York State Sexual Harassment Law 2019”
Holla Back!
From the website of Hollaback!
WHO WE ARE:
Hollaback! is a global, people-powered movement to end harassment. We work together to understand the problem, ignite public conversations, and develop innovative strategies that ensure equal access to public spaces. We leverage the very spaces where harassment happens – from online to the streets – to have each other’s backs and build a world where we can all be who we are, wherever we are.
Stop Street Harassment
Stop Street Harassment is a nonprofit organization dedicated to documenting and ending gender-based street harassment worldwide. SSH conducts research, funds a national hotline, works on local, national and international campaigns and runs an informational website.
Lauren Stiller Rikleen, The Shield of Silence: How Power Perpetuates a Culture of Harassment and Bullying in the Workplace
The Shield of Silence: How Power Perpetuates a Culture of Harassment and Bullying in the Workplace, By Lauren Stiller Rikleen
The Shield of Silence: How Power Perpetuates a Culture of Harassment and Bullying in the Workplace looks at the culture of the workplace and its impact on women and other groups who bear the impact of sexual harassment, bullying, lewd and inappropriate remarks, and other behaviors that can negatively impact the experiences of people each day.
African American Women Respons to Hill/Thomas Hearings, 1992
African American Women In Defense of Ourselves, New York Times, 1992, a response to the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings by African American women.
PBS Frontline: Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas: Public Hearing, Private Pain (55 min.)
Public Hearing, Private Pain (55 min.) explores how Clarence Thomas’s bitter Supreme Court nomination hearing, replete with charges of sexual harassment, reached deep into the psyche of black America. Through interviews with prominent African-Americans, the program finds that the dynamics of race-being black in America-were inescapably at the heart of the story and that little common understanding existed in the way blacks and whites viewed the nomination battle.