性骚扰有一个重要元素:权力的不平等 (power differential, such as manager/employee or professor/student),以及人数造成的“势力”强弱区别(hostile environment: when there are a large group of male employees talking about sex in front of a few women workers)。
Anita Hill在1991年的参院 听政会与 Clarence Thomas对簿公堂确实引起了全美上下首次对性骚扰案件的瞩目注意. Hill功不可没