Women’s Media Center – 10/02/07
Clarence Thomas’ memoir, “My Grandfather’s Son,” was published earlier this month. In it, he writes that Anita Hill was a mediocre employee, who was used by political opponents to make claims she had been sexually harassed. That week, the Women’s Media Center ran an op-ed by Freada Kapor Klein. Excerpt:
Although the more blatant forms of unwanted sexual attention—the quid pro quo where a boss essentially tells an employee “sleep with me or you lose your job”—have decreased, more subtle forms persist. The incidence of unwanted sexual attention in the form of teasing, jokes, remarks or questions, remains at 11% annually for Caucasian women and 14% annually for women of color, according to the Level Playing Field Institute’s 2003 study, “How Fair.”
