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The perspectives and research data on labor turnover and occupational choice have not been integrated meaningfully. In fact, each area has tended to develop independent of the other. Essentially, each job entrance and each job e-xit has been treated as a unique occurrence, and not as part of a work history. This paper suggests and integrates several concepts which make it possible for the phenomena considered by labor turnover and occupational choice to be treated as aspects of a larger process of job selection.

Sexual harassment, i.e., unwanted sexual attention, is not a new phenomenon for working women. Yet only in recent years have the behaviors constituting it been challenged and recognized as detrimental to society. This paper documents the process by which sexual harassment emerged on the public agenda. It identifies the major elements–media attention, activities of interest groups, court actions, and legislation–involved in the process of redefinition and examines how and why each promoted the issue. The data, gathered from analyses of publication and language trends, records of congressional hearings, and interviews with several participants in the process, are used to further understanding of how these elements converged during a period of social concern for women's rights and enabled a public reconceptualization of sexually harassing behaviors.