ABSTRACT
Sexual harassment is “the norm, our version of the work ethic,” a Russian journalist recently remarked. 1 As this comment suggests, women have long been, and continue to be, the subject of discrimination and sexual harassment in Russia. Scholarly notice of flagrant discrimination against women in the workforce centers primarily on the 1920s, when seesawing female unemployment contrasted sharply with both official and legal proclamations that all citizens had a right and duty to work. 2 But the efforts of many working women in Soviet Russia 3 to address and remedy instances of discrimination and sexual harassment through legal and alternative dispute resolution fora in the mid- to late-1920s have escaped detailed study.
