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...bias suit takes aim at the peak of corporate power...
Despite the new openness in discussing the issue, sexual bias and harassment remain an entrenched fact of life at many U.S. companies. In a recent poll of 439 female executives, the recruiting firm Korn-Ferry found that 60% had been sexually harassed during their careers...
Regardless of how it is settled, Heckendorn's complaint could encourage similar challenges by high-ranking women who believe they have been wrongfully passed over. While women have brought record numbers of sexual harassment and bias suits in the past year, the pinnacles of corporate power have remained virtually all-male aeries untroubled by female challenges. "It's very unusual to have a suit at this level, although I've been approached by a number of highly placed executive women who have been harassed by a CEO or someone of equally high rank," says Ellen Bravo, executive director of 9to5...
Nelson renders in detail the texture of life at a news room, especially the factional warring which dominates the Post. Deep bias can be detected in much of her analysis however, and she often speculates on others' motives without documentation...
According to the New York-based Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, skinheads have taken 22 victims in the past three years; in 1992 they were responsible for seven deaths, almost a quarter of all bias-related murders in the U.S. The ADL concluded that the punks, who number about 3,500, are now a bigger racist threat than the Ku Klux Klan. The relatively small death toll, points out Portland, Oregon, police officer Loren Christensen, is misleading. "What makes them real dangerous," he says, "is that it doesn't take many to terrorize a community." Or even...