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Reach Out And Touch Someone...Or Not The issue of sexual harassment is not a new one. It has existed since the beginning of time; however, it has not gained notice until recently. In fact, women did not “start winning sexual harassment lawsuits until the mid 1970s” and the “first sexual harassment lawsuit to reach the Supreme Court was not decided until 1986” (Brown 43). The exact reasons for this phenomenon is not known but a better understanding of what sexual harassment encompasses can be gained by looking at the people it affects, defining what it is, when it occurs, where it happens, and why it does take place. To begin with, sexual harassment is “pervasive” occurring “in all social and economic classes” and that no person is immune (Stark 50). For example, Anita Hill, a Yale educated African American law professor, announced that she faced sexual harassment at the hands of Supreme Court judge nominee Clarence Thomas. In contrast to Hill’s higher socioeconomic status, Sheila Bensen, a 45 year old self employed Caucasian woman, was also a victim of sexual harassment (Benson 31). Nor does sexual harassment occur only among women contrary to popular belief (Schultz par.12). For sexual, harassment, women, schultz, men, par, until, stark, quid, place, one, history, form, environment, sexually, places, occurs, occur, issue, hostile, harassed, fulcher, allison, about, workers, work, wood, winning, victim, unwelcome, time, takes, take, supreme, subordinate