Sexual Harassment

NORTH COUNTRY is a movie that was released in 2005 about a group of women who filed a class action sexual harassment law suit again a local mine in Minnesota.

STORY LINE: 

Single mother Josey Aimes (Charlize Theron) is part of a group of the first women to 

work at a local iron mine in Minnesota. Offended that they have to work with women, male 

workers at Eveleth Mines lash out at them and subject them to sexual harassment.  Appalled by 

the constant stream of insults, sexually explicit language and physical abuse, Josey -- despite 

being cautioned against it by family and friends -- files a historic sexual harassment lawsuit.


FACT:  
In April 2006, the Hibbing, Minnesota, chapter of the American Association of University Women held a ceremony honoring the women workers at Eveleth Mines who filed the first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit. Their story became the basis for the 2005 movie North Country.    May 6, 2006

Personally:  I have witnessed sexual harassment throughout my 45 year working career and have oftentimes engaged in flirting with women until informed that my flirting was not welcomed and then I stopped.  However, most males (witnessed by me) refuse to stop when asked politely by women and more often than not take that sexual harassment to the extreme.

Prior to 1990, I was working in North Carolina and one of the people with whom I was associated who worked in the Superintendent of Education office, frequently came to where I was working to try and pick up women with whom he could have affairs (yes, he was married) because showing this behavior where he was working could get him fired.

After 1990, I was working in Tennessee and because of my job responsibilities had to work with a manufacturing company where the technicians were told that the female machine operators were sexually available to them (as a perk of employment) if and only if they were willing participants.  Obviously, many of the females felt like they had to comply.  The situation was so bad because half the corporate Vice Presidents had married female machine operators are girlfriends.

SEXUAL HARASSMENT still takes place in the workplace and as long as married males and females work together will continue to take place regardless of the rules and regulations against sexual harassment that these companies put into place. 

Sexual Harassment is mostly/only reported when the male attention is not wanted/desired by the female.