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- Title
Workplace Rumors About Women's Sexual Promiscuity as Gender-Based Insults under Title VII.
- Authors
Hess, Wendy N.
- Abstract
The article discusses why workplace rumors about a woman's sexual promiscuity violate the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibition of workplace harassment because of sex. Topic discussed include ways i which spreading rumors about a female employee's sexual promiscuity can damage her workplace credibility; hostile work environment cases; and ways in which courts should handle Title VII hostile work environment cases involving workplace sexual rumors.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PROMISCUITY; LABOR laws; HARASSMENT laws; RUMOR; PREVENTION of harassment; ETHICS; PREVENTION; LAW
- Publication
ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law, 2016, Vol 31, Issue 3, p447
- ISSN
2156-4809
- Publication type
Article