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Civil Rights,
Labor/Employment

Oct. 29, 2021

30 years after Anita Hill's testimony, how can employers finally address the problem?

Three decades later, has anything changed? The short answer: no really.

Leonid M. Zilberman

Partner
Wilson Turner Kosmo LLP

550 West C Street Suite#1050
San Diego , CA 92101

Phone: (619) 236-9600

Fax: (619) 236-9669

Email: lzilberman@wilsonturnerkosmo.com

Lonny practices employment law, diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as mediation and alternative dispute resolution and provides anti-harassment and other employment-related training to California Employers.

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30 years after Anita Hill's testimony, how can employers finally address the problem?
Anita Hill testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during confirmation hearings for Justice Clarence Thomas in Washington, Oct. 11, 1991. (New York Times News Service)

Thirty Years ago, in October 1991, then 35-year-old Anita Hill, a young law school professor appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee and calmly and deliberately testified how her former boss, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, engaged in behavior that was both unwelcome and offensive to her, when they both worked at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

It was perhaps the first time that allegations of sexual harassm...

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