The EEOC is an executive branch agency that issues
guidelines on employment discrimination. Courts eventually approve (the legal
term is defer) or overturn them. Since 1986, the Supreme Court—even with
conservative justices ruling— has deferred to the EEOC’s broad definition of
“hostile work environment.” This term has been interpreted by the EEOC and
courts to prohibit demeaning words used against women, such as bitch (and much
worse), when these words are pervasive and interfere with her work. Recall that
it was the aggressive questioning, i.e., the work of the female Fox News reporter, that was the subject of Trump’s deeply
demeaning “bleeding” insult. Is more of
this in the future of working women in America?
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