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Performance as Punishment: How Employers Retaliate Under the Radar Through Reviews,...
Introduction: When Accountability Becomes a Liability Retaliation in the workplace is rarely loud. It does not always announce itself with termination letters or overt threats. It often takes the form of subtle shifts: a sudden drop in performance...
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Toxic Resilience: How Survivors Normalize Abuse to Survive—and How Employers Weaponize...
Introduction: When Survival Is Used Against You Survivors of workplace sexual harassment often face a cruel paradox: the very behaviors they adopt to survive abuse—composure, professionalism, even gratitude—are later used to discredit them....
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Myths and Misconceptions About Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: What the...
Introduction Despite decades of civil rights enforcement and public awareness, misconceptions about workplace sexual harassment persist. These myths don’t just obscure the truth—they actively harm survivors, mislead employers, and obstruct...
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From Misconduct to Misgovernance: What Civil Rights Settlements Reveal About Institutional...
Introduction Civil rights settlements are supposed to resolve harm. In practice, they often conceal it—and enable it to repeat. When public institutions quietly pay millions to settle claims of harassment, discrimination, or retaliation, the...
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Weaponized Compliance: How Employers Use Investigations to Silence Harassment Victims
I. Introduction Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 promises that employees can report sexual harassment without fear of retaliation. In theory, internal complaint systems—whether managed by human resources, legal departments, or compliance...
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The Institutionalization of Coercion: Academic Power, Grooming, and the Law’s Blind...
I. Introduction In elite academic institutions across the country, the most insidious forms of sexual harassment do not always begin with an overt proposition or a hostile comment. Instead, they unfold slowly—layered in mentorship, hidden in...
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