CNNMoney cites Blackstone in article on Anita Hill, sexual harassment
Amy Blackstone, a sociology professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in the CNNMoney article, “How Anita Hill forever changed the way we talk about sexual harassment.” In 1991, Anita Hill testified about sexual harassment she allegedly endured from Clarence Thomas, her former boss at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and then a Supreme Court nominee. Before an all-male Senate Judiciary Committee, she recounted the allegations, sparking a national conversation about sexual harassment: what it is, how it’s defined and whom it affects, according to the article. A decade later, when Blackstone began researching sexual harassment, she interviewed men and women about their workplace experiences, and the Hill and the Thomas hearings kept coming up, the article states. “I was surprised by the number, without any prompting from me, who noted the impact the Thomas hearing had on their awareness of harassment as an issue, and the impact it had in terms of their reflections on their own experiences,” she said.