"Television crime shows often are set in cities, but in its third season, ABC’s 'American Crime' took a different tack. It opened on a tomato farm in North Carolina, where it showed a young woman being brutally raped in a field by her supervisor.
'People die all the time on that farm. Nobody cares. Women get raped, regular,' another character tells a police interrogator.
The show’s writers did their research. Studies show that 80% of Mexican and Mexican American women farmworkers in the U.S. have experienced some form of sexual harassment at work."
~ Kathleen Sexsmith, Penn State, Francisco Alfredo Reyes, Penn State, Megan A. M. Griffin, Connecticut College
"Sexual violence is a pervasive threat for female farm workers – here’s how the US could reduce their risk"
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