Fewer women filing claims for sexual harassment

NEW YORK - More than 40 years after federal law made it illegal, 30 years after courts widely began recognizing it as a form of discrimination and at least 20 years after many companies inaugurated programs to prevent it, sexual harassment remains a stubborn blemish on the American workplace that not only can be ugly but very expensive, as New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas and his employer, Madison Square Garden, learned Tuesday.