Sexual harassment entails the coercion of an individual in a sexual nature. This type of abuse comes in a variety of forms that are considered illegal under the sexual harassment law. In the workplace, sexual harassment is considered employment discrimination. In the United States, the sexual harassment law because in 1964 with the Civil Rights Act. The act prohibits the discrimination of employees based on sex, race, color, religion, or national origin. In America, the first document sexual harassment case was Barnes v. Train. The case took place in 1974 and never actually used the term "sexual harassment." In 1976, the case of Williams v. Saxbe resulted in the defining of sexual harassment and the role it place in sex discrimination.