Title VII and the Fight Against Sexual Harassment at Work

Title VII and the Fight Against Sexual Harassment at Work

A key part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is Title VII, a federal statute that makes it illegal for an employer to discriminate on the basis of sex. Yet approximately 60 percent of employees reported experiencing unwanted sexual attention or coercion at their workplace in recent years.  Although the U.S. Congress intended Title VII to be a sweeping prohibition on employment discrimination, not every type of discrimination that employees can exp…