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Sexual harassment was made illegal by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and guidelines were issued in 1980 by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) underscoring the importance of the problem and the need for employers to develop procedures to eliminate sexual harassment in the workplace. Without effective procedures to combat the problem, women reporting instances of sexual harassment may encounter disbelief, skepticism, retaliation, or, in the case of women supervisors, lack of support in attaining work-related objectives. Among the suggestions made by the EEOC in its booklet entitled 'Sexual Harassment on the Job' published in 1982 are: establish whether sexual harassment exists, create a procedure for reporting complaints and investigate them thoroughly, have a policy statement prepared and distributed on harassment, include the subject in training of employees; and assign the responsibility for coordinating the company's efforts at preventing sexual harassment.