1. Short title; Findings (a) Short title This Act may be cited as the Ending Secrecy About Workplace Sexual Harassment Act . (b) Findings Congress finds that the following: (1) Thirty years after the United States Supreme Court held in Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson that sexual harassment creates a hostile or abusive work environment and is a violation of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, sexual harassment remains a widespread problem, affecting victims in every industry, at every level of employment. (2) In fiscal year 2015, almost one-third of the 90,000 charges filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission involved harassment, and nearly a quarter of those harassment charges involved sexual harassment. Of the total number of charges received that alleged harassment from employees working for private employers or for State and local government employers, approximately 45 percent alleged harassment on the basis of sex. (3) According to the Commission’s Select Task Force in 2016, on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace, the prevalence of such harassment— (A) causes mental and physical harm to the victim, as the study concluded that employees experiencing sexual harassment are more likely to report symptoms of depression, general stress and anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and overall impaired psychological well-being