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CLEVELAND (UPI)
- A 29-year-old clerical
instructor quit her job
with a labor-related
organization because of
advances her = super-
visor made to her. She
said when she refused a
date with the super-
visor, she had to do
typing that she was not
upposed to do.

That's an example of
sexual harassment at work

~ Editor: MARILYN JOHNSON

By both men and women

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: ‘women - home - entertainment ° real estate

“August 5, 1979

Cleveland State University
researchers found when
questioning some 400 male
and female office workers in
the Cleveland area.

The survey found that
more than half the women
and a quarter of the men said
they have been victims of
sexual harassment at work.

Dr. Lucille Wright, CSU
education professor, said 57
per cent of the women and
25 per cent of the men

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reported some type of sexual
harassment on the job at
least once every four days.

However, only one per
cent said they were actually
threatened with dismissal if
they failed to comply with
sexual advances.

The survey, conductd by
graduate students, also
revealed that young,
inexperienced workers are
most likely to be harassed.

Dr. Wright said women
reported they are quictly

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harassed on a day-to-day
basis. But she said the men
said they were blatantly
harassed by disgruntied
women secking revenge for
rejection.

Men told researchers
disgruntled women
telephoned their wives and
told them their husbands
were having affairs at the
office. One man said his wife
almost divorced him before
he discovered who was
harassing him = and trans
ferred her out of © his
department.

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