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

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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.

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