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16 Hastings Women's L.J. 139 (2004-2005)
A Hometown Dilemma: Addressing th e Sexual Harassment of Undocumented Women in Meatpacking Plants in Iowa and Nebraska

handle is hein.journals/haswo16 and id is 149 raw text is: A Hometown Dilemma: Addressing the Sexual Harassment of Undocumented Women in Meatpacking Plants in Iowa and Nebraska Amanda Clark* I. INTRODUCTION While much has been written about sex discrimination and sexual harassment in agricultural labor,' significantly fewer efforts have been made to examine the ongoing problem of sexual harassment in the meatpacking industry. Although a few female employees have successfully brought charges against packing plants in the past few years, winning jury awards or forcing the plants to settle,2 sexual harassment in the meatpacking industry remains a systemic problem. The problem of sexual harassment of undocumented workers is difficult to analyze outside the context of the growing participation of Latino workers in the meatpacking industry and the rapidly increasing presence of Latino immigrants within the communities that host meatpacking plants. In addition to focusing on the barriers to reporting and resolving sexual harassment complaints in the industry, this note will engage in a brief survey of the migration trends towards meatpacking communities that have developed over the past decade. This note will also examine the growing controversy over the impact and meaning of the * J.D. Candidate, May 2005, University of California, Hastings College of the Law. The author is originally from Iowa where she obtained her B.A. in Global Studies and Spanish at the University of Iowa. She spent three years on the Texas/Mexico border where she worked as a legal assistant at Texas Rural Legal Aid. She is currently studying international human rights law at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, with a focus on the human rights of women within the developing world. 1. See, e.g., Maria M. Dominguez, Sex Discrimination & Sexual Harassment in Agricultural Labor, 6 AM. U.J. GENDER & L. 231 (1997); Richard Kamm, Extending the Progress of the Feminist Movement to Encompass the Rights of Migrant Farmworker Women, 75 CHI.-KENT L. REv. 765 (2000); Maria L. Ontiveros, Lessons from the Fields: Female Farmworkers and the Law, 55 ME. L. REv. 157 (2003); William R. Tamayo, The Role of the EEOC in Protecting the Civil Rights of Farm Workers, 33 U.C. DAVIS L. REv. 1075 (2000). 2. See ERIC SCHLOSSER, FAST FOOD NATION, 176 (Perennial 2002) (2001); see also Lynn Hicks, IBP Worker Awarded $2.4 Million by Jury, DES MOINES REGISTER, Feb. 27, 1999, at 1A; Monfort Beef to Pay $900,000 to Settle Sexual Harassment Suit, HOUSTON CHRONICLE, Sept. 1, 1999, at 2. HASTINGS WOMEN'S LAW JOURNAL

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