Anita Hill on her book Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence.
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
We hear from Professor Anita Hill who thirty years ago faced an all-male, all-white Senate Judiciary Committee—led by the then, Senator Joe Biden—to testify that her boss, Supreme Court Justice nominee Clarence Thomas, had sexually harassed her. It was a landmark moment for these issues and inspired countless women to come forward with their stories, to file complaints, and even to run for office; creating an unintentional trail blazer. Now an advocate, educator and author she talks to Emma Barnett about her new book Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence.
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Presenter Emma Barnett Producer Beverley Purcell Photo credit; Celeste Sloman
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Woman's Ah, from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello and welcome to today's program, |
| 0:42.0 | since yesterday's program where we spoke about whether the police are institution or as an institution |
| 0:48.2 | sexist, something Janet Hill, a retired met police officer told us, |
| 0:52.0 | the met commissioner Dame Kressdudik has announced |
| 0:54.7 | that an independent review is set to be carried out into the Met Police's standards and culture |
| 1:00.4 | after the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everett by a serving police officer. |
| 1:05.0 | Dame Cressida, who's rejected calls to resign, said that the review would be led by a high-profile person, |
| 1:11.0 | and she's also called for a national review of police vetting |
| 1:14.3 | standards. Today the Home Secretary Priti Patel and the newly installed |
| 1:18.0 | Justice Secretary Dominic Raar will be speaking at the Conservative Party annual |
| 1:21.9 | conference about their respective briefs. |
| 1:25.0 | But while we await policies, independent reviews and whatever else you've heard the |
| 1:29.6 | Prime Minister has ruled out making misogyny a hate crime, women and girls have got to get on with |
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