How Anita Hill’s testimony has empowered women / moderated by Jeanette Pinkney ; co-chaired by Anita Hill.

Five part retrospective a year after the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas confronation during the Thomas Conformation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The programs are comprised of hearing actualities and highlights from the recent conference held at Georgetown University concerning changes in race, gender and power over the last year.|HOW ANITA HILL’S TESTIMONY HAS EMPOWERED WOMEN / moderated by Jeanette Pinkney| co-chaired by Anita Hill. SERIES: Race, gender and power in America| no. 1 Five part retrospective a year after the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas confronation during the Thomas Conformation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The programs are comprised of hearing actualities and highlights from the recent conference held at Georgetown University concerning changes in race, gender and power over the last year. CONTENT: Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton explores the role of U.S. Congresswomen in opposing Thomas’ nomination after Hill’s charges, and the impact of the scandal upon women in politics, such as Carol Mosley Braun’s Senatorial candidacy and primary campaign victories of Arlene Specter and Patty Murray. She goes on to look at changing legislation: sexual harassment bill, Supreme Court decisions, and the Water cooler legislation in Maine. She concludes by pointing out that women’s charges of sexual harassment are now taken more seriously. RECORDED: 16 Oct. 1992. !!RESTRICTICTED DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS — NO CASSETTE SALES!!
|Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton explores the role of U.S. Congresswomen in opposing Thomas’ nomination after Hill’s charges, and the impact of the scandal upon women in politics, such as Carol Mosley Braun’s Senatorial candidacy and primary campaign victories of Arlen Specter and Patty Murray. She goes on to look at changing legislation: sexual harassment bill, Supreme Court decisions, and the Water cooler legislation in Maine. She concludes by pointing out that women’s charges of sexual harassment are now taken more seriously.