Posted on 12/14/2017 9:30:03 PM PST by rockinqsranch
In the 1970's something occurred, an event occurred in the U.S. that ultimately caused businesses, government, etc. to perform mandatory sexual harassment classes.
I can't remember what it was at the time in I believe the latter 1970's that caused the glorious waste of time (IMO) that to this day is a requirement in most workplaces.
Was it something similar to what is inundating the headlines today? Is what we are subjected to daily now simply deja vu?
Huh?
Need more descriptive details... Are you talking about some sex scandal involving a national politician? Some early incident of alleged sexual abuse involving Hollywood celebrities? An especially lascivious episode of some primetime tv show that opened the floodgates?
Regards,
It wasn’t just a single event.
Women entered the workforce in a wave in the ‘70s. It was a corporate mantra: We have to hire more women.
Women were not necessarily trained or proficient in the skills needed in the business — and government positions — that they were being shoehorned into.
Hence, “Human Resources” and other similar departments were created to be staffed by the wave of new hires.
HR departments quickly focused on what those men who had long been in the business or government worlds HAD to do to make women feel more welcome in this new environment.
Add 40 years. Women now rule the corporate and government roosts to the point where even a questionable glance from a man is actionable.
Tyranny, pretty much.
He’s asking us what happened.
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I was born in the mid-70s...but I don’t think that’s what triggered the mandatory seckshul harassment trainings. At least I HOPE not! :-)
And yet there is so much more going on - the truly powerful continue to prey; it takes 40 years for accusations to come out... Whatever we are seeing now, it isn’t the truth.
I’ve been trying to remember the event, circumstance, that caused the regulation of sexual harassment in the workplace that began in the 1970’s. I was hoping I could get some help remembering what happened that caused the scheduled sexual harassment education requirements major business HR departments must comply with since that time.
I’ve been retired awhile now, or I’d have asked around at HR, but I’d bet nobody knows the origins of the law.
I believe something such as what we are seeing today must have occurred back then, and of course about the time the regulation/law became would have been BIG Government Carter days IIRC.
I don’t remember, and am asking for help if anybody else does remember.
It was a couple of books-———one by Catherine MacKinnon
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Sometimes the mind can create false memories.
Type “LBJ” into your search engine, go to the wikipedia entry, then browse thru LBJ’s legislation, looking in particular at the Civil Rights Act of 1968. You might find what you’re looking for there.
"Before the 1970s, the term “sexual harassment” would have been met with a blank look. Sexual overtures and disparaging remarks about workers’ competence based on their gender were widely considered acceptable behavior. In 1974, a US district court judge found that a woman whose job was eliminated in retaliation for refusing to have sex with her supervisor was not protected under employment law but was instead facing the personal consequences that may arise when sexual advances are rebuffed. Recognition of sexual harassment as an illegal workplace behavior originated in the US following influential work by Catharine MacKinnon, who argued that sexual harassment is sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In 1980, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued guidelines defining workplace sexual harassment. Many countries quickly followed the US’s lead in recognizing sexual harassment as an illegal form of workplace behavior. Sexual harassment in the workplace is now internationally condemned as a form of sex discrimination and as a violation of human rights. It is costly to workers and organizations. Yet it remains pervasive. What market failures prevent its eradication, how effective is legislation, and what policies can reduce the incidence?"
Link to site I found this on:
I tried to put this in as a link, but for some reason because its a pdf file, it won't show as a clickable link. You can cut and paste this for the full article:
https://wol.iza.org/uploads/articles/188/pdfs/sexual-harassment-in-workplace.pdf
Thanks for that JC. I do believe there was something else about that time also that triggered a movement already in progress at MIT, but THAT is what I can’t remember, and can’t find information on.
My point being of course that government has been involved in our personal business now since the ‘70’s, and yet we have this explosion of disgusting, harmful accusations indicating a failure in the system. I do believe most of us here at FR recognize exactly what the problem is, but again I’d like to remember what it was that triggered the government involvement that has obviously failed.
House speaker Carl Albert and his little scandal?
But he was a Democrat wasn’t he, so prolly not.
Something happened in the 70's where living together before marriage went from living in sin, to well I guess their saving money, to it's none of your business, to ain't that sweet.
Something happened in the 70's where druggies were criminals, to druggies were hip yet to be avoided, to where druggies are hip and we need to party with them, to drugs are just another thing to do between work and sleep.
Something happened in the 70's where women were OK doing the things they were genetically tailored to do (maintaining a clean, safe, enriching environment for their husbands and children), to being shamed into going into the workplace, to being shamed if they weren't able to manage children AND a career, to being vaulted into positions of authority at work just to meet quotas.
The future isn't what it used to be.
That’s when the “I’m OK, you’re OK” meetings took place in the office. I believe it was the beginning of the femminazi movement.
Well, those certainly are some words you could type into your search engine!
Frankly, your question makes no sense to me, either. It's like asking what single event caused a typhoon, or triggered the Civil Rights Movement. There was no one incident or event - or if there was, it was like the flapping of a butterfly's wings (q.v. "The Butterfly Effect").
Regards,
Wilbur Mills. Never mind.
.......”Yet it remains pervasive. What market failures prevent its eradication, how effective is legislation, and what policies can reduce the incidence?”........
I read that, and laugh as what it is implying is Marxist as ‘H’. It says to me government policies are the only way to eradicate the failures of enterprise, the marketplace, etc.
Thank you for your response. I sincerely appreciate it. It seems to me I’m trying to remember an event that triggered government regulation when in fact it was apparently the handiwork of SJW’s at MIT, etc.
I’m all for respect of our women in the workplace, just not with a gun to our heads by government. That of course goes for most anything IMO.
.......”There was no one incident or event - or if there was, it was like the flapping of a butterfly’s wings (q.v. “The Butterfly Effect”).......”
Current events were triggered by an explosion of “me too” after revelations of sexual excesses by Harvey Weinstein. THAT is what I’m looking for in the 1970’s, something similar that triggered that which occurred that our society suffers today. I’m looking for linkage.
Thanks you for your response. I appreciate the input.
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