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As the story of the sexual harassment allegations against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain broke, Cain had his best 24-hour fundraising stretch. What should women conclude from this? Is this just support for Cain, or yet another Republican attack on the hard-won rights women have gained in the last three decades?
Before the ground-breaking work of Catharine MacKinnon, Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Discrimination in the late 1970’s, the term “sexual harassment” did not even exist. In her work defining both the term and the legal arguments, MacKinnon argued that sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination underTitle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. MacKinnon established that sexual harassment is sex discrimination because the harassing act reinforces the social inequality of women.
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