Anita Hill-Led Hollywood Commission Details Sexual Harassment Claims in Industry Workplaces

Anita Hill “Telling people jokes that are based on gender, that is a gateway to other behavior,” the chair of the industry organization says. In its latest survey , the Hollywood Commission, an organization chaired by Anita Hill, found that gender harassment, or offensive workplace talk, is the most common type of harassment in the entertainment industry. The survey revealed that gender harassment is experienced virtually equally across Hollywood, by 62 percent of male respondents and 67 percent of women surveyed, and especially younger women.

The commission’s anonymous survey of 9,630 Hollywood workers was completed between November 2019 and February 2020. According to survey respondents, the experience of crude and gendered language in the workplace is followed by less common instances of harassment including unwanted sexual attention, sexual coercion and sexual assault. Hill, a professor at Brandeis University who brought national exposure to the issue of sexual harassment during the 1991 Senate confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, says offensive or demeaning jokes about someone’s gender need to be addressed precisely because they encourage worse behavior that she and her commission have been working to eliminate in Hollywood. “Telling people jokes that are based […]

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