Sexual Harassment and Barriers to Advancement: What Has Changed Since the 1990s?

This event is Day Two of a two-day conference.  Please click here for more information day one, "Anita Hill: Speaking Truth to Power Film Screening and Q/A with Professor Anita Hill."

About the event: Feminist icon Gloria Steinem once famously remarked that sexual harassment didn’t have a name when she was young –  "it was," she said “just life.” That was before the revelations brought forward by a young Oklahoma law professor named Anita Hill at the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991. Hill’s testimony galvanized a generation of women, and transformed sexual harassment from “just life” to an important part of the American civil rights landscape.

Please join us for this exciting opportunity to hear from Professor Anita Hill.  There will be two panels. One will discuss sexual harassment at work, school, and in the street, while another focuses on the future of women’s leadership. There will also be a lunch at which Professor Hill will offer keynote remarks. 

Agenda

8:15 am - 9:00 am     Registration and continental breakfast

9:00 am - 10:15 am   Panel Discussion: "Just Life": Sexual Harassment and Rights Mobilization in Work, School, and the Street

Panelists:

· Professor Anita Hill, Brandeis University;
· Professor Catharine MacKinnon, University of Michigan Law School;
· Martha Kanter, former Undersecretary of Education U.S. Department of Education;
· Professor Laura Beth Nielsen, Northwestern University and American Bar Foundation;
· Annie Clark, co-founder End Rape on Campus; and
· Alexandra Brodsky, co-founder KnowYourIX

Moderator: Professor Michele Dauber (Stanford Law School)

10:15 am - 10:45 am Break

10:45 am - 12:00 am Panel Two – Women and Leadership

Panelists:

· Professor Anita Hill, Brandeis University;
· Dean Persis Drell, Stanford School of Engineering;
· Professor Shelley Correll, Clayman Institute for Gender Research; and
· United States Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren

Moderator: Professor Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford Electrical Engineering)

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Break

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm   Luncheon with keynote remarks by Professor Anita Hill

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm     Break

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Campus Sexual Assault and Title IX: Know Your Rights for Stanford Students

· Annie Clark, co-founder End Rape on Campus
· Alexandra Brodsky, 2L Yale Law School, co-founder KnowYourIX

Click here for more information about the Title IX: Know Your Rights event.