cover image Corporate Attractions

Corporate Attractions

Neville, Kathleen Neville. Acropolis Books (NY), $19.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-87491-952-3

As accounts of sexual harassment are increasingly reported by members of the growing female workforce, Neville, one of its victims, offers guidelines to combat the problem. In a forthright narrative, understandably tinged with bitterness, she recounts how, following her complaint of sexual harassment by her boss, she was fired from her job as a TV reporter in upstate New York and underwent seven years of humiliation, death threats and sensationally covered trials that wrecked her career and bank account. Now a counselor to similarly abused women, she discusses how to identify and report signs of improper behavior. She calls for enforcement of existing federal and court guidelines, although she maintains that the legal system is still inimical to this type of case. (May)