The term sexual harassment was coined in 1975 by the journalist Lin Forley, who’d been teaching a course at Cornell University about women and work. She invited female students to a “consciousness raising” session and asked about their experience in the workplace. “Every single one of these kids had already had an experience of having either been forced to quit a job or been fired because they had rejected the sexual overtures of a boss,” she said in a 2017 interview with On the Media host Brooke Gladstone. Forley cast about intentionally for a term—a label—that would capture these shared
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