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Could fear of “Metoo” backlash silence women’s voices?

“We need to be concerned about it,” said Fatima Goss Graves, head of the National Women’s Law Center, which promotes equal rights for women. “The last thing you would want is a solution that involves...

Tawdry Tales Depict a Texas Congressman’s Frat House on the Hill

“If you are trying to create a workplace where sexual harassment and other sorts of unlawful harassment don’t happen, you really need to be thinking about workplace culture more broadly and about civility and respect,”...

Anita Hill Schools Hollywood on Sexual Harassment

“1991 and 2017 weren’t isolated events, but part of an arc bending towards justice,” Hill said at the United Talent Agency on Friday afternoon, when she took the stage with Fatima Goss Graves, the CEO...

Anita Hill says Thomas, Weinstein part of arc toward justice

Anita Hill told a room full of entertainment industry professionals that her 1991 testimony about Clarence Thomas and the flood of sexual harassment allegations surfacing now are part of “an arc that had been bending...

What The Revised Tax Bill Means For Women in Business

Anna Chu from the National Women’s Law Center was not surprised by Talley’s story, noting that the tax bills could be “yet another deterrent that prevents young people – including many young women – from realizing...

The Trump administration proposes allowing tip-pooling in restaurants. Critics call it stealing workers’ wages.

In a recent investigation on sexual harassment in the restaurant industry, The Washington Post found women were frequent targets. For example, in 2015, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received 5,431 complaints of sexual harassment from...