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SEXUAL MISCONDUCT IN THE WORKPLACE: HOW AN NBA TEAM FAILED WOMEN

By Joshua Mundell Sexual misconduct toward women is a growing problem in the United States. Celebrities such as Matt Lauer, Harvey Weinstein, and Louis C.K have all been found guilty of sexual misconduct within the past two years. You may ask what makes these men’s stories so similar? All these sexual misconduct incidents occurred in their respective workplaces. According to Lloyd Hoffspiegel, “There has been sexual misconduct in the workplace ever since there has been a workplace” (Hoffspiegel, 2002). One of the more disturbing cases of sexual misconduct in the workplace recently occurred within the Dallas Mavericks organization, a team in the National Basketball Association. In February of 2018, Sports Illustrated (SI) published an investigative report detailing the extensive accounts of sexual misconduct and sexual harassment that had occurred within the Dallas Mavericks organization. This report described the situation in Dallas as a “real-life Animal House” and stated ...