But the first black officer hired, Sharon Stevens, sued the department in 1996, charging racial and sexual harassment.

Eventually, Miss H. found two feminist lawyers in Fukuoka to file the first lawsuit in Japan charging "sexual harassment."

The civil rights bill already approved in the House would give women complainants the same redress available to those who charge intentional racial discrimination or harassment, with one wrinkle.

Caught between the two jaws of this particular vice, a wife with money and a mistress charging sexual harassment, Kline cracked.

B1 A tension-ridden Queens firehouse is experiencing a run of transfers, four days after a female firefighter charged harassment by male colleagues.

A school system in Northern California will pay a former student $250,000 to settle a lawsuit charging sexual harassment in a schoolyard, lawyers for the school district said.

The lawsuit was the first ever filed in Japan charging sexual harassment.

Elsewhere, the Court TV cable channel can offer, as it did recently, a condensation of a real trial in which the plaintiff charged sexual harassment.

Among the recent cases is a class action suit against the Ford Motor Company charging racial discrimination and harassment.