How the Reagan Administration Decided That Sexual Harassment Was No Longer Sexual Discrimination

A lesson in bureaucracy, conservatism, and how to eliminate pesky feminist issues

Last week I posted an account of how Ronald Reagan, a president not famous for his commitments to anti-racism, turned out to be the president who made Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a federal holiday. While today’s post does not dig deeply into the Reagan administration’s record on gender, it does take us back to the 1980s to explore why a report commissio…