Sexual Harassment in Public Places: Experiences of Canadian Women.(Statistical Data Included) The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology | November 1, 1999| | COPYRIGHT 1999 Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Assn. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Sexual harassment of women existed long before the Industrial Revolution (Fitzgerald and Shullman, 1993: 5) but it has been defined as a social problem only since the 1960s. Both academics and legal experts have focussed mainly on harassment in the workplace and universities (see Welsh, 1999 for a recent review of the literature). Similarly, federal guidelines in both Canada and the U.S. construe sexual harassment as sexual discrimination in employment - that is, a civil rights violation, not a criminal offense (Canadian Human Rights Commission, 1983; U.S. Equal Employment ...

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