Vicki Schultz

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Vicki Schultz, a professor at Yale Law School, has contributed greatly to the debate around sexual harassment policies and law. Her 1998 law review article entitled “Reconceptualizing Sexual Harassment” has had a tremendous impact on the way that workplace harassment is perceived, and her paradigm of sexual harassment has been debated and discussed in courtrooms as well as the national news media.

As a Bunting Fellow, Schultz will continue her research on workplace harassment. Her work counters the current paradigm of sexual harassment, which labels harassment as a means for men to satisfy sexual needs and display sexual dominance. In Schultz’s paradigm, harassment serves to reinforce the sex-segregation of jobs, protecting certain forms of work as masculine preserves. If the tremendous response to her law review is any indication, Schultz’s work promises to change the way legal cases are handled and company policies are written as well as move feminist legal thought in a new direction.

Schultz earned her JD from Harvard Law School. She served as a trial attorney for the US Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Division before serving as a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Schultz was appointed to be a Whitney Humanities Center Fellow at Yale University from 1998 to 2001.