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Sexuality and the Law

Vanderbilt Law Review

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Employer liability

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Using Agency Principles For Guidance In Finding Employer Liability For A Supervisor's Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment, Glen A. Staszewski May 1995

Using Agency Principles For Guidance In Finding Employer Liability For A Supervisor's Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment, Glen A. Staszewski

Vanderbilt Law Review

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended 'Title VII," prohibits sexual harassment in the workplace.' The courts have created two categories of sexual harassment. The first, quid pro quo sexual harassment, occurs when a supervisor requires sexual consideration from an employee in exchange for job benefits. The second, hostile work environment sexual harassment, occurs when an employee is subjected to unwelcome sexual harassment that affects a term, condition, or privilege of employment. The victim must prove that the harassment is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of hers employment and create an abusive working …


A Paradigm For Sexual Harassment: Toward The Optimal Level Of Loss, Marie T. Reilly Mar 1994

A Paradigm For Sexual Harassment: Toward The Optimal Level Of Loss, Marie T. Reilly

Vanderbilt Law Review

The emerging law of sexual harassment has focused discussion on the political, sociological, and legal issues surrounding sexual conduct. Some commentators have argued that the developing law insufficiently addresses an underlying political imbalance between men and women. Although these commentators eschew sexual harassment law as a plausible means of achieving an egalitarian, sex-blind society, they offer few concrete suggestions for reaching their goal. A few scholars have taken a position at the other extreme, that sexual harassment is more or less a chimera, and that the injury women claim to experience is simply part of the vicissitudes of life, or, …