sexual harassment
- unwelcome sexual advances made by an employer or superior, especially when compliance is made a condition of continued employment or advancement.
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Origin of sexual harassment
First recorded in 1975–80
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The wage structure of waiting tables is a sexual-harassment machine.
Her firm won $18.4 million for James Stevens in his sexual-harassment case against Vons.
He fell victim to his own ignorance, disorganization, and inability to deal with sexual-harassment allegations.
Sexual-harassment deniers are in overdrive amid the escalating complaints against the presidential hopeful.
Already, many conservatives have declared that all sexual-harassment cases are con jobs.
sexual harassment
- the persistent unwelcome directing of sexual remarks and looks, and unnecessary physical contact at a person, usually a woman, esp in the workplace
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