Anita Hill's Arguments Against Sexual Harassment

The significance of Lorena Week’s sex discrimination case was that women can use the legal system to achieve for equality. Week’s case led the National Origination for Women to challenge discriminatory laws. Lorena weeks was a single mother of three children living in Wadley, Georgia. She worked as a telephone operator for many years at the Southern Bell Company. As a single mother, Weeks struggled to provide for her family on her low wages. When the position of Switchman opened, Weeks applied for the position. The switchman job had higher wages and since weeks had been with the company for many years she had seniority rights for the position. When Weeks confronted the company, they said the position was reserved for men and didn’t consider

2. Clarence Thomas was accused of sexual harassment and assault by Anita Hill in 1991. Today he is a Judge in the Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America. He has been also accused by other women in the 1990s.

Thomas believed that blacks were defeating the purpose that they had worked so hard in the past decades to gain. By self-segregating "blacks were turning away from the real world." And so, rather than separating himself from the Black Student Union and their personal corridor, he made a compromise by deciding to live in the corridor, with his white roommate. (Thomas 117, Foskett 99-102) 

Thomas was involved in the political scene at a very early age. After just two short years in Washington, Thomas began working in President Reagan’s administration. Thomas was a rarity in Washington. In the Washington Post Thomas was introduced to the public. The article read, “He is one of the black people now on center stage in American politics: he is a republican, a long-time supporter of Ronald Reagan, opposed to the minimum wage law, rent control, busing and affirmative action.” (Foskett 152) 

For eight-years Thomas served on the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee under Ronald Reagan. (Foskett 161-2) 

On June 30, 1991 President Bush nominated Thomas to the Supreme Court. Similar to all nominees Thomas was sure to be asked many difficult and personal questions. And being a black conservative, and to many liberals and democrats, viewed as a traitor, passing his confirmation hearings and gaining approval from the senate would be no easy task. If that weren’t enough, Anita Hill made matters far more difficult when she accused Thomas of sexual harassment, ten

After more than 200 years of living under the United States Constitution and despite all of the progress women have made, they still to this day continue to suffer discrimination in employment, insurance, health care, education, the criminal justice system, social security and pensions, and just about any other area you can name.

I noticed how women are still treated/looked at as objects. I think it's really annoying how women couldn't speak or even have a say in anything and if they tried to talk they were ignored. “But they had often wound up sitting silent in political meetings or trying to speak and being ignored” (Collins 183). Women are just as helpful as men, if not more helpful and have similar ideas to men so why be rude to them. I think women should be hear and treated equally. This whole situation reminds me of the movie we are currently watching

Women have had a rough way to go for many years when it comes to equality. They face many negative things in today’s society and that is the way it has been for many years. History shows that women have been fighting for equality for decades, because many people believe they just can’t do the things that men can. There’s a website that has been helping women fight for that equality since 1966. That website is www.now.org. Before then women never really had any help. They had to rely on each other to show everyone what they could really do. Women have fought to try and end discrimination when it comes to jobs and economic justice. So the status of women throughout history has changed,

Women and all people should be treated equally based on their actions. These women have been doing their part too, like “feeding her children properly.” (Doc. C) These women are hard-working and do their part, but are not given nearly enough credit. They need to do other things like keep her basement dr and make her stairway fireproof, but she cannot do this without her rights.

In history most women did not work, men were the breadwinners of the household and women took care of the children, cooked, and cleaned. There were specific expectations of women to listen, be respectful, and be pretty much be obedient to their husband or father when growing up. I was also raised on those old-fashioned values that were, never be outspoken, rude and obnoxious like most boys are. Since those old traditions were carried out for so long and are still upheld in some lives today, this is what started building the barrier that blocks women from being treated

Women have been treated very different from the beginning of time. Life before women's rights movements and activists was terrible. Women were discriminated against and looked down on in a very hurtful way. They could not even do the simple like vote or get a quality education because men believed that the only purpose women serve is to be a home body. It is hard for American women in today's society even believe what went on, better yet think that the ways of life back then are still present in some cultures. Slowly things have started to change and women have gotten more rights and overall life has changed drastically in some spots. In America things have changed for the better, however in the more poorer cultures they are at a standstill.

Once in time women were idolized as goddesses, like Cleopatra. Lately they are often treated as second class citizens, such as Rosa Parks. Through history we have not shown women the respect and authority they require. Women should stop being treated as minorities, even through the unfair treatment, girls in some countries aren’t even allowed to go to school, without the education they are left unemployed.

The 1970’s began the dawn of sexual harassment law. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, began being utilized by feminists, and lawyers during the 1970’s in order to defend the female victims of these sexual encounters. The challenge for lawyers and activists, such as Catharine MacKinnon and Lin Farley, was to persuade the American judiciary that sexual harassment is a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, “discrimination on the basis of sex” (Siegel, 2004).

Women have virtually the same rights as men. However, the fault needing to be recognized in today’s society is the way that women are treated. Even in simple areas, such as jobs, women are put on the back burner. A woman is able to become a CEO of a company, nonetheless, she will struggle twice as hard as a man would. Even as an employee, women are statistically paid less than men are.

As a society, I am very sad to say, we still have a long way to go for women and men to be treated equally. Although there has been some great progress made so far women are still not treated as equals. Women are just as much part of the work force and are “bread-winners” just like the men. There are women all over the world with very successful careers and some are even powerful boss ladies. So for society to still look at women like they are not equal to men is disgusting.

Although they have been given more rights and equality, women still lack fairness in areas such as education, domestic abuse, crime, and lower class value. Cassandra Clifford states in her article “Are Girls still marginalized? Discrimination and Gender Inequality in Today’s Society”, “Woman and girls are abused by their husbands and fathers, young girls are exploited by sex tourism and trafficking, girls in many countries are forced into arranged marriages at early ages. Twice as many women are illiterate as men, due to the large gap in education, and girls are still less likely to get jobs and excel in the work place than boys.” She describes some of the issues that women face today around the world. These issues are what keep society from coming together to form a better world.

Gender equality is necessary for creating a foundation of a peaceful, fair and sustainable world where it creates a world of “Universal respect for human rights and human dignity” as it is a fundamental human right. A sustainable development only happens when the principle of “leaving no one behind” is