Foreword
In 1964, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act that outlawed a broad range of discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. Title VII of the legislation dealt specifically with discrimination in the workplace, including in a company’s hiring and firing decisions.
In the years since that landmark law was enacted, the Supreme Court has interpreted the “because of sex” anti-discrimination language to include prohibitions on sexual harassment in the workplace …