[Another example of a definition by *a significant political lobbying group* that really, literally, does throw in everything from "dirty jokes" to "rape" under "sexual harassment", and even goes so far as to what's often thought of as parody, including in the definition ``referring to adult women as "girls"''] From: IRENESTUBER@delphi.com Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: 12-01-94 Women of Achievement and Herstory Date: 7 Dec 1994 18:21:57 GMT Organization: (Not given) Lines: 71 Sender: frizvi@dna.bchs.uh.edu (Fazia Begum Rizvi) Approved: frizvi@dna.bchs.uh.edu Message-ID: <3c4ug5$pqs@masala.cc.uh.edu> 12-01-1994 Women of Achievement and Herstory This list of EXAMPLES OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT was prepared by the Capitol Hill Women's Political Caucus to define sexual harassment in the workplace and set forth guidelines for offices on Capitol Hill for those men who pretend they don't know what politeness, equality, or *no* mean: -unsolicited and unwelcome flirtations, advances, or propositions; - graphic or degrading comments about an employee's appearance, dress or anatomy; -verbal abuse with sexual connotations; -display of sexually suggestive objects or pictures; -ill-received dirty jokes and offensive gestures; -prurient or intrusive questions about an employee's personal life; -explicit descriptions of the harasser's own sexual experiences; -the abuse of familiarities or diminutive such as "honey," "sweetheart," "darling" "dear" or "baby"; this can including referring to adult women as "girls"; -whistling, catcalls; -leering; -exposing genitalia; -unnecessary and unwanted physical contact: touching, hugging, kissing, patting, pinching, tugging at clothing, etc. -physical/sexual assault; and -rape. Anniversaries -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- B. 12-01-1847, Christine Ladd-Franklin, psychologist who developed the method that reduced all syllogisms to mathematical formula in her paper "The Algebra of Logic", was not only refused admission to John Hopkins University because she was a woman, but after completing studies under a special fellowship program, she was also refused the Ph.D. she earned. Turning to a study of binocular and color vision, produced the universally acclaimed Ladd-Franklin theory of color vision. She lectured for many years at both Johns Hopkins and Columbia. In 1926 at the age of 79, John Hopkins finally awarded her its Ph.D. She was a lifelong advocate of greater educational opportunities for women. B. 12-01-1879, Lane Bryant, Lithuanian-born American entrepreneur began as a seamstress and created first chain to sell stout-sized clothing in the U.S. Event 12-01-1955, Rosa Parks, refused to give her seat to a white man on an Montgomery, Alabama, bus and the modern black civil rights movement began. Four days later Dr. Martin Luther King, a virtually unknown minister, called for a boycott of the Montgomery bus line by Blacks. Ms. Parks is considered the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. Event 12-01-1968, The New York newspapers, the _Times, Post, Daily News_, and _Village Voice_, ended sex-segregated want ads after several years of campaigning by women's groups led by NOW. E. 12-01-1971, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) is named "the largest oppressor of women workers in the United States," in a blistering report by the Equal Employment Commission to the Federal Communications Commission. Event 12-01-1989, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, becomes the first woman to assume the editorial reins of the prestigious _Harvard Business Review_. She is a professor at the Harvard Business School. Quote du jour -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "I don't care is she's walking stark naked from here to the Capitol. "I don't care if she is a prostitute or a nun. "No man has a right to touch a woman without her consent, and that's what we've got to get across." -- Joe Biden, Chairman, US Senate Judiciary committee. (C) 1994 Irene Stuber, PO Box 6185, Hot Springs National Park, AR 71902, irenestuber@delphi.com. Distribute verbatim copies freely with copyright notice for non-profit use. -- Post articles to soc.feminism, or send email to feminism@ncar.ucar.edu. Questions and comments should be sent to feminism-request@ncar.ucar.edu. This news group is moderated by several people, so please use the mail aliases. Your article should be posted within several days. Rejections notified by email.