upper waypoint

Farmworkers Face Rape - And a System That Doesn't Aid Them

Save ArticleSave Article
Failed to save article

Please try again

It's no secret that farmworkers do some of the hardest jobs in California: sweltering under the summer sun, picking grapes or harvesting lettuce. But one secret about life in the fields is the problem of sexual harassment--verbal abuse, even assault and rape. Yet many immigrant farmworker women are afraid to report abuse.

Sponsored

lower waypoint
next waypoint