Queen

I. BACKGROUND2

1 Plaintiff works as a nurse practitioner at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System (the “VA”). 2 See Complaint at ECF Page 8. She alleges that Defendant, who oversees the work of Plaintiff and 3 other nurse practitioners at the VA (see id. at ECF Page 9), sexually harassed her on numerous 4 occasions: 5  On a 6.5-hour phone call with Plaintiff, which occurred outside of work hours, Defendant 6 discussed her sexual history (including “that she was not looking for a man right now 7 because she thought a man might be harboring a sexually transmitted disease”) and 8 inquired about Plaintiff’s romantic interests, seemingly while taking a bath. See id. at ECF 9 Page 12. 10  On a different phone call, which also occurred outside of work hours, Defendant told 11 Plaintiff a story about a woman giving birth in graphic detail. See id. Defendant “laughed 12 hysterically and repeated the story over and over.” See id. Plaintiff told Defendant “that 13 she found the story disturbing.” See id. 14  On yet another phone call outside of work hours, Defendant told Plaintiff a story about a 15 nurse-practitioner student performing a vaginal exam without gloves and without…