12.02.08
Women To Women
WELCOME TO MY WEBSITE: WRITE TO THIS BLOG OR E-MAIL ME AT normarae2008@gmail.com
This website is designed for women who have been harassed in the workplace. We’re hoping to create an intelligent, sensitive dialogue with women where we can share information, resources, answer questions, and compile trends in the workplace that will be used to help focus attention on the needs to improve harassment and discrimination laws.
In 1964, Title VII was enacted into law as part of the Civil Rights Act. Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. With the enactment of Title VII the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, was formally launched to respond to and investigate harassment complaints in the workplace. The EEOC has investigated thousands of complaints since its inception, and it now reports that approximately 15,000 complaints are filed each year.
Those filings are merely the reports that are filed. It is difficult to determine how many cases are underreported, or are reported and never receive a proper hearing. Many women fear filing a complaint due to the threat of retaliation, job loss, personal injury, ridicule, intimidation, stalled career growth, or other financial or job related problems. Many women who have been harassed experience emotional and physical problems because of the harassment, such as stress, loss of sleep, depression, loss of self esteem or self confidence, post traumatic stress syndrome, alcoholism, and other physical or emotional symptoms.
This web site is for the women who have been harassed or abused in the workplace. My goal is to reach out to as many of you as possible, to hear your stories and offer candid, honest, sensitive information on where you can go for help, how the law works, where you can get information from the EEOC, education on how to file a claim, and where you can find resources for support and therapy to help you recover from your experiences.
Please write to me on this site. Share your story. I guarantee that I will respond to each and every person who reaches out to me. Together, we’ll find a way to make a better future if not for ourselves, for our daughters.
