Sexual Harassment is any unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature (Roberts 1). Sexual harassment has always been a vague term. What one woman sees as sexual harassment, another woman doesn't find offensive. Businesses are just now deciding to take action, but some are still unsure how to handle it. Within the past 10 years, courts have been faced with tons of sexual harassment cases. Women are not afraid to fight anymore. Title VII and the Civil Rights amendment are now protecting women against sexual harassment. Employers can now be found liable for sexual harassment claims. The last ten years have proved that sexual harassment is something women do not have to take anymore. There are things the victims can do and almost have to do in todays workplace. Sexual harassment has slightly changed in the last few years for the better.
             On the job sexual harassment is not a recent problem. The American court system did not decide the first sexual harassment case under Title VII until 1976. "The wider public appears not to have fully appreciated the problem's scope until 1991, when the Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings on Anita Hill's charges against Supreme Court Clarence Thomas" (Roberts, 1). In 1976, the same year that the District Court of the District of Columbia resolved the first Title VII sexual harassment case, a Redbook magazine poll found that nine out of ten women said they had been subjected to unwanted sexual advances at work. After the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings on Capitol Hill, the number of sexual harassment cases filed with the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) offices across the country jumped fifty percent over the previous year. Complaints about sexual harassment have ranged from a hostile work environment to demands for prostitution. Until 1991, Title VII entitled sexual harassme...