Shabnam Farshadjoo’s Controversial Revelation Of Sexual Corruption In Iranian Cinema

  Rowe says that harassment of women in the workplace was being discussed in women's groups in Massachusetts in the early 1970s. At Cornell University, instructor Lin Farley discovered that women in a discussion group repeatedly described being fired or quitting a job because they were harassed and intimidated by men. She and colleagues coined the term "sexual harassment" to describe the problem and generate interest in a "Speak Out" in May 1975. She later described sexual harassment at length in her 1975 testimony before the New York City Human Rights Commission