A Setback for Pinups at Work

In Florida a federal judge rules that pictures of nude women can be considered a form of sexual harassment

At factories, construction sites and shipyards across the U.S., girly pinups -- often so anatomically explicit they would make Betty Grable blush -- are the workingman's constant companion. Although women hold 8.6% of skilled blue- collar jobs, their presence has done little to diminish the existence of these graphic images. For their part, courts have been reluctant to rule that pornographic pictures constitute a form of sexual harassment in the workplace, mainly because such photos are ubiquitous.

Now a ground-breaking decision by the federal district court in Jacksonville has changed all that. The court ruled that pictures of naked and scantily...

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