According to studies the history of Sexual harassment goes back to the early 1800 "when increased numbers of women began working in the textile mills in New England.....printers in Boston conducted a campaign of intimidation to force women out of their jobs in that industry in 1835."1 Unfortunately, feminist groups didn't create the term sexual harassment until the 1960s. Congress eventually passed the Title VII of Civil Rights act, which makes it illegal for discrimination at work on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin and sex. Congress also then created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). This commission enforces federal legislation prohibiting discrimination in employment to ensure equality of opportunity.
             So what exactly is sexual harassment. It may be widely know as an unwelcome advancement from a managing male to a subordinate female, but there is much more to it. Sexual Harassment is actual a legal term that was coined to help end the pestering and inequalities against women in the workplace. As years went by this legal term has been tweaked several times. The current definition comes from the United Stated Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) its defines as and unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitutes sexual harassment when submission to or rejection of this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment. Sexual harassment must take place within a workplace and/or school and can view as harassment in several different ways. Examples of these circumstances included but are not limited to the following: The victim as well as the harasser may be a woman or a man. The victim does not have to be of the opposite sex; the harass
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