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Columbia Law School

Law and Gender

1997

Stanford Law Review

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What's Wrong With Sexual Harassment, Katherine M. Franke Jan 1997

What's Wrong With Sexual Harassment, Katherine M. Franke

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In this article, Professor Franke asks and answers a seemingly simple question: why is sexual harassment a form of sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? She argues that the link between sexual harassment and sex discrimination has been undertheorized by the Supreme Court. In the absence of a principled theory of the wrong of sexual harassment, Professor Franke argues that lower courts have developed a body of sexual harassment law that trivializes the legal norm against sex discrimination. After illustrating how the Supreme Court has not provided an adequate theory of sexual harassment as …