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Lin Farley, author of “Sexual Shakedown: The Sexual Harassment of Women on the Job,” The Line discusses the brief government shutdown

January 25, 2018

Two women sitting in chairs in front of a green screen.

This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Megan Kamerick sits down with Lin Farley, whose book, “Sexual Shakedown: The Sexual Harassment of Women on the Job,” was first published in the late 1970s. For years women in the workplace faced unwanted sexual advances and physical or verbal abuse based on their gender. In 1975,…

Lin Farley: On Coining The Term “Sexual Harassment”

January 25, 2018

A woman is sitting in a chair and laughing.

January 26, 2018 – Lin Farley was a journalist and an instructor at Cornell University when she coined the term “sexual harassment” to summarize what so many women were experiencing at their jobs across the country. She went on to write the book “Sexual Shakedown: The Sexual Harassment of Women on the Job.” It was…