Manzo

MEMORANDUM ***

Ruth Manzo appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment to her employer, Laborers International Union of North America, Local 872 (Local 872), in this Title VII action on her claims of hostile work environment 1 and retaliation. We affirm.

Manzo has failed to raise a triable issue of fact as to whether Vaughn’s conduct was “sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim’s employment and create an abusive working environment.” Craig v. M & O Agencies, Inc., 496 F.3d 1047, 1055 (9th Cir.2007) (internal quotation marks omitted). Viewing the evidence in the record in the light most favorable to Manzo, she has only adduced facts demonstrating that Vaughn made proposals of marriage, which on all but one instance she did not take seriously and understood to be a joke, and that Vaughn made one crude sexual remark about a co-worker (whom Manzo later dated and wed) at an office party. 2 As the district court concluded, such conduct was not severe or persistent enough for a reasonable woman in Manzo’s position to consider the terms and conditions of her employment to be altered. See, e.g., Vasquez v. County of Los Angeles, 349 F.3d 634,…