Man trouble: what does male-on-male sexual harassment mean for discrimination law? (Columns).
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Published | 2003-01-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Cathy Young |
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Meritorv. Vinson that sexual harassment violates the federal prohibition on sex discrimination in the workplace. Many feminists hailed the decision as a major victory for women. They probably did not imagine such legal developments as lawsuits by heterosexual men against other heterosexual men for sexual harassment via bawdy humor.
Yet the Supreme Court gave such cases the go-ahead in the 1998 decision Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, and they seem to be the new frontier in sexual harassment litigation. By now the...
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