Best

MEMORANDUM ***

Cynthia Best appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of her employer, the California Department of Corrections (“CDC”), on her Title VII sexual harassment and retaliation claims, and asserts for the first time on appeal that her complaint stated a claim for disparate treatment in violation of Title VII. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and for the reasons stated below, we affirm.

I.

Cynthia Best began working for CDC in 1994 and was assigned to the High Desert State Prison in May 1996. Best brought a Title VII action against CDC on September 11, 1997, alleging that she had been subjected to a hostile work environment on the basis of gender and ethnicity, 1 and had suffered retaliation for her complaints of discrimination. On September 23, 1999, the district court granted summary judgment for CDC on all three of Best’s claims. In doing so, the court concluded that Best had failed to present sufficient evidence that any alleged adverse employment action was causally related to her complaints of sexual harassment, and that she had not demonstrated that the conduct of which she complained was sufficiently severe or pervasive…