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Book Review: 

Herma Hill Kay & Carroll M. Brodsky, Protecting Women from Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (reviewing Catherine A. MacKinnon’s Sexual Harassment of Working Women), 58 TEXAS L. REV. 671 (1980). 

The dramatic shift in the law of sexual harassment can be attributed, in part, to Catherine MacKinnon’s book, which was circulated amongst academics as early as 1975.  Her primary goal is to establish that sexual harassment of working women constitutes sex discrimination within the statutory meaning of Title VII and, as applied to government workers, within the scope of the equal protection clause.  Her book details two legal theories, the “differences” approach and the “inequality” approach, which helped pave the way for the law to recognize a cause of action for sexual harassment in the workplace.