Pervasive workplace harassment

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal court in Arkansas declined the University of Arkansas’s governing board’s effort to toss a sex-based hostile workplace claim brought by a family consumer science agent who worked for one of its rural agricultural extension offices. She says her boss subjected her to routine harassment for 13 months, used misogynistic slurs to demean others, said he “wouldn’t piss on” her predecessor “if she were standing in the road on fire” and excluded the worker from meetings and emails regularly. The pattern is pervasive enough to sustain a suit.