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What Farmworkers Can Teach Hollywood About Ending Sexual Harassment
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What Farmworkers Can Teach Hollywood About Ending Sexual Harassment

Greg Kaufmann explain how the farmworkers of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) offer a proven model for women to report sexual harassment and violence.

What could Hollywood’s brightest stars learn from farmworkers in Florida’s tomato fields? When it comes to creating a workplace where women are empowered to report sexual harassment—and receive justice rather than retaliation when they do so—the farmworkers of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) offer a proven model. That the group created this solution in a town known less than a decade ago as “ground zero for modern slavery” makes it all the more remarkable and promising for other industries.

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