Back in September we described a case of same sex harassment and retaliation at a small mom & pop type business. It may be no surprise that a company with only a few employees and no compliance department would fail to prevent violations. But as a recent lawsuit by the Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission
Sexual Assault
The Power Imbalance
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Happy International Women’s Day! This year’s theme is building a gender-balanced world. The #BalanceforBetter campaign will continue for the rest of 2019 to inspire women and men to strive for a “gender-balanced boardroom, a gender-balanced government, gender-balanced media coverage, a gender-balance of employees, more gender-balance in wealth, gender-balanced sports coverage . . . .” Better…
Lunch & Learn on March 19, 2019
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The #MeToo movement has brought many things to light over the last year along with a lot of questions about what is considered sexual harassment and what to do about it. If you are interested in learning more about these issues, Lapin & Leichtling, LLP will be hosting a Lunch & Learn on March 19,…
2018 – How Far Have We Really Come in Learning About Sexual Harassment and Assault? The U.S. Senate is Showing Us.
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Posted in Culture, Sexual Assault
On Sunday night, the New Yorker published a piece by Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer regarding sexual assault allegations against U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, from his freshman year at Yale. The article was published on the heels of the first victim, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, agreeing to testify before the Senate Judiciary…
Failing to Take Advantage of An Employer’s Opportunities for Preventing or Addressing Sexual Harassment
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Nicole Reyes moved to the United States from the Philippines with her five-year-old daughter and husband just over a year ago, speaking minimal English. Through a family friend who knew the owner, Maria Santos, also from the Philippines, Mrs. Reyes got a job in Hotel Pagalit cleaning rooms. When she began her employment with the…
Sexual Harassment in Hollywood, Changing the Narrative, and Increasing Female Leadership
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We have had several points over the last forty years in which Americans have learned about sexual harassment – the 1991 Anita Hill senate testimony, the 2010 Casey Affleck allegations, and now the 2017 Harvey Weinstein revelations. Generations of women and girls learned that coming forward about sexual harassment often meant that you…
The Hostile Educational Environment
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Seo-Yun was a 15-year-old public high school student who came to the United States from South Korea at the age of ten. By the time she reached high school, Seo-Yun was speaking English fluently and excelling academically. Seo-Yun even published her own first book of poetry, which contained poems in both English and Korean.
Nonetheless,…
#metoo, Education, and Thoughts on the Root of Sexual Harassment
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An Interview With Author and Filmmaker Raquel Cepeda
Before we can take steps in the U.S. to eliminate sexual harassment, it is important to understand why it’s so common in the first place. To me, the “boys will be boys” attitude begins to set in during childhood and sometimes extends to the courtroom when female…