Despite the clear commonality of sexual harassment, it could be considered as a recent phenomenon, as any kind of discrimination, whether for race, sex, color, religion, etc. was once legal. Discrimination was not considered illegal in the US until 1964 by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act with the prevention of discrimination being the Act’s primary purpose. Even with this, the first sexual harassment cases were not brought about until the 1975, when a woman called Carmita Woods reported to Cornell University, her former employer, that she suffered unwanted touches from her male supervisor. A Cornell professor, Lin Farley, first used the phrase ‘sexual harassment’ at a hearing of the New York City Human Rights Commission (The Week, The depressingly
