It is 29 years since Anita Hill testified before the U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee. We’ve come a long way, baby, but it seems that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Many women (and men) born after 1991 have no idea who Anita Hill is and how her testimony before a hostile, all-male U. S. Senate Judiciary panel during the confirmation hearings of then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas impacted their mothers and grandmothers – and changed the manner in which women respond to bias.