CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, November 14, 1983
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Official says sexual harassment is problem for working women
By GINA K. THORNBURG Staff Reporter
Sexual harassment in the workplace can cause physical and psychological problems for its victims and can prove costly for employers, the assistant director of the KU office of affirmative action said Saturday.
Mary Hoferek, the assistant director, was one of three speakers who addressed about 30 people in the Kansas Union at a conference on sexual harassment in the workplace. The three-hour conference was sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Western Missouri.
WOMEN WHO CONTINUE working in an environment where employers harass them may develop symptoms of serious stress, Hoferek said.
"A woman I knew who was in the environment for two years developed high blood pressure," she said.
Even if a woman becomes ill because of sexual harassment and realizes that something is wrong at work, she might not define the problem as sexual harassment. She might even blame her employer's behavior. Holferek said.
Cindy Walls, associate director of the ACLU clause, said that women should recognize unwanted sexual advances as sexual harassment and should not
blame themselves for their employers' actions.
A victim of sexual harassment should also document the harasser's behavior as well as confront him with the problem.
"Don't ignore it," Walls said. "That tends to encourage it."
Hoferek said once a woman lost her
'How do you explain to future employers why you suddenly left or why you were suddenly fired?'
— Mary Hoferek Assistant director K.U. affirmative action
ambition and self confidence, she might not quit her job because she might not feel capable of finding another job.
"For workers who continue in these situations, there is high absenteeism and low morale," she said.
WOMEN WHO QUIT their jobs as a result of sexual harassment might have trouble finding other jobs, Hoferek said.
"How do you explain to future employers why you suddenly left or why you were suddenly fired?" she asked.
When an employer makes submission to sexual advances a condition of
employment and fires a woman for refusing his advances, the woman can have her case tried under the guidelines of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Elinor Schroeder, professor of law, said, "Cases are easier to win when a good employee is harassed and loses her job."
Harassment of men does not occur as often as harassment of women, Schroeder said. The only case in which a man won a sexual harassment suit against a woman was tried in Wisconsin, she said.
If a person sues an employer under Title VII and wins, the plaintiff is compensated for attorney's fees and for wages lost, she said.
HOFEREK SAID sexual harassment could be costly for an employer if a former employee was eligible for unemployment payments and if the former employee sued the employer and the company.
Schroeder said that even if an employer did not know about a supervisor's harassing conduct, the employer was usually liable because he was responsible for the actions of his supervisors.
However, if a worker engages in sexual harassment, the employer can be relieved of liability if he can prove that he was unaware of the harassment, she said.
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Protesters criticize U.S. intervention in Central America and Caribbean
Despite chilling winds and nearfreezing temperatures, a group of more than 150 people marched Saturday through downtown Lawrence in protest of U.S. involvement in Central America and the Caribbean.
The protesters assembled at noon in Constant Park, and after rehearsing their slogans, began marching on Sixth Street toward Massachusetts Street.
They carried placards that cited
their places and military
intervention. America
"U.S. invades Cuba, 1920." "U.S. occupies Grenada, 1983." and "U.S. occupies Nicaragua, 1927 to 1943," were among the signs that made reference to the kind of U.S. involvement in the region that the marchers condemned
SATURDAY'S MARCH was organized by Latin American Solidarity, a campus group that opposes U.S. policy in Central American and the Caribbean, and that organized the march to coincide with a similar protest in Washington, D.C.
On Massachusetts Street, the protesters drew scattered hostile comments: "If you don't like it, leave," and "You don't deserve to be American." A crowd of students succeeded toward South Park chanting slogans in both English and Spanish.
Among the slogans that the protesters yelled was the Sandinista
revolution chant in Nicaragua, "Patria libre o mori", which they also chanted in English: "Free homeland or death"
The marchers also protested against the Reagan administration.
"Reagan, Reagan, he is a fool, he is a tool of the rich man's rule," the marchers chanted. "Hell, no, we won't go. We won't fight for Texaco."
OTHER OBSERVERS ALONG Massachusetts Street expressed support for the rally, not so much for the protesters' point of view, but in support of marches as a way to advocate change.
After about 45 minutes, the march ended at South Park where a group of supporters played Latin and Caribbean rhythms on the bed of an open truck.
Lourdes Goveia, Venezuela graduate student and one of the organizers of the march, told a crowd of about 100 people that Nicaraguan们 was in a state of alert because they thought that a movement of their country was imminent.
"Where is the American government when all these dictators are massacred?"
THE CONFLICT RISING in Central America is not a conflict between East and West, she said. It is a contention that must all kinds of oppressive governments.
And she also said she feared for the Ammas lives that might be lost in Central America.
"We must prevent a terrible blood bath that will surely carry U.S. troops into Central America," she said.
Harry Shaffer, a KU professor of Soviet and East European studies, was among the protesters because "we had no conscience of the American people."
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