The Invention of the Term "Sexual Harassment"

This is the perfect example of how that kind of gap gets closed. So get this.

Before the 1970s, the term sexual harassment didn't exist. It just wasn't a

thing. So women, like Carmeta Wood, who worked at Cornell, would experience

all this awful stuff from their bosses. But what could they call it? Was he just being

friendly? Was it part of the job? When Carmeta would eventually quit,

she was denied unemployment benefits because she couldn't give a good reason. She literally didn't

have the words. But then women started talking to each other. They realized,

"Hey, this isn't just happening to me. This is a pattern." And that's when