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Sexual Harassment (Behavior)

Woman Wins $102,000 in Case Against Technical School

Published in Sex Weekly Plus, February 9th, 1998

After paying $15,000 to learn computer repair at a technical school, Holly R. found herself the only woman in the classroom and the target of constant sexual harassment.

She found X-rated images and obscene messages on her computer screen in what one witness called a locker-room atmosphere.

When she complained to the dean, Ms. R. said, he told her: "What's the matter' Don't you like boys'" He told her that when she left the school, she would have "a thicker skin," she said.

Ms. R. quit the 500-student CHI Institute in Southampton, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and sued. A federal jury on January 13, 1998, found the school liable...

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