then, bill tamayo went to work in san francisco for the equal employment opportunity commission: the eeoc. >> i met with the advocates for farm workers, and i said, "what are the main issues that you see we should address?" and they nearly all said the same thing. it was sexual harassment in the fields. and they said, "look, if there's anything you can help us with, it's just that women are being raped in the fields by coworkers and supervisors." farm worker women were talking about the fields as the fields de calzón, or fields of panties, because that's where the women had to go in order to get a job, keep a job, get a promotion. it was the classic quid pro quo. they referred to the fields as the "green motel" because it was where they had to go and have sex with a hiring official. my initial reaction was asking myself, "wow, over a century after slavery had ended, why do we still have these conditions in the fields?" >> bergman: so tamayo set out to investigate and prosecute cases. bill tamayo and the eeoc could not bring criminal charges against perpetrators, but they could sue a