It didn't take long for Catherine Broderick to discover that working at the Arlington, Va., regional office of the Securities and Exchange Commission was not much fun. After Broderick's arrival in 1979, a top administrator got drunk at an office party, untied her sweater and kissed her. That was nothing unusual: a female junior attorney and two female secretaries were openly having affairs with their male superiors. When Broderick rejected advances of a similar nature, she began receiving negative performance reviews and was threatened with dismissal. "I did not participate or condone it, and that stymied my career," she says.
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