The fight to make sexual harassment a crime - a podcast by BBC World Service

from 2020-03-17T09:00

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In 1986, the US Supreme Court heard a landmark case which would define sexual harassment as a crime in America. The lawsuit, brought by bank clerk Mechelle Vinson, established that abuse in the workplace was a breach of civil rights. It was built on pioneering legal scholarship by feminist lawyer Catharine MacKinnon, who talks to Sharon Hemans.

PHOTO: Mechelle Vinson in 1986 (Getty Images)