ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the role of the Spanish state in one domain of citizens' sexualities, namely sexual harassment in the workplace, which is at present an offence punishable under the labour law and the Penal Code. This chapter traces how unwanted sexual behaviour at work was fIrst defmed as a public problem in the mid-l 980s by state feminists (see Stetson et at. 1995) and feminists within trade unions, and how the matter was placed on the government agenda (see Kingdom 1984: 3), and legislated and implemented in 1989 and 1995.