Three decades after Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual assault, opening doors of visibility for women across the country, she says that America still has a long way to go to address gender violence.
In Hill's new book ー "Believing: Our Thirty Year Journey to End Gender Violence Hill" ー she explains how she was sorely reminded of the 1991 testimony against Thomas 27 years later when Christine Blasey Ford accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault; allegations which were categorically denied by the U.S. Supreme Court associate justice.
"In 2018 when Ford testified, I saw the similarities in not only the outcome but also in terms of what I view as a completely failed process that did not allow us to get to the truth," Hill told KCBS Radio's Rebecca Corral on Wednesday.
Her new book delves further into the nature of this so-called failed process, examining gender violence in workplaces, schools and in the home.
Hill said the flawed system is a public health crisis, calling on Pres. Joe Biden, who was head of the senate judiciary committee at the time of her 1991 hearing, to include other agencies regarding the big picture on gender and violence.
Moving in the right direction, Biden has "apologized for his role in the management of the confirmation hearing," Hill said. Now she is asking him to seriously address "sexual assault in elementary and high schools all the way to sexual assault in workplaces and intimate partner violence in our homes."
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