Gender Inequalities In Confirmation Anita Hill

Gender inequalities can come from many different and sometimes unlikely places. In the movie Confirmation Anita Hill accuses Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her. This is the last place we would look to find sexual harassment. We should be looking up to the leaders of our country and not having to question their authority and credibility to lead this country. Gender inequalities have been a huge problem in our country ever since it was founded. Confirmation is just a small glimpse of how women have been mistreated in this country. Confirmation is a cruel but accurate representation of inequalities faced by gender discriminations, and the inequalities women face will not improve anytime soon.

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Females have had over 400 years of injustices in this country, and as soon as this hearing starts people pretend to care about them, and Anita Hill. Throughout history black females have been seen as property, and sexual objects for all men. Way back in the day there was no laws against rape for black women. This has brought upon a negative connotation for black women. They are looked upon as “less” by many people, not only by whites, but even by African American men. This is not just how they have been depicted, African American women have actually been used in this way. Black women are used to the oppression, Barbra Smith states, “I was furious by how Anita Hill was treated by the Senate, but as a black feminist, socialist, and a lesbian I was not particularly disillusioned or surprised” (Aint Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around par 4). For so many years Black Women have been treated as lesser, so it was not a surprise to them when Anita Hill was also treated like this. She was being treated just like any other black women would have been. The sole fact that women aren’t even surprised at how Anita Hill was treated by the Senate is enough to show that there is a problem with gender inequality in the United States of

By this I mean that gender is not seen as important as race. Throughout United States history this is very evident. Clavin Hernton states, “The sex war and the race war in the United States have always been ruled by the politics of common ideology, the ideology of Race First and Sex Second” (Breaking Silences par 1). This is shown to be true by the Amendments of the Constitution. The thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery for both men and women, but the fourteenth and fifth tenth Amendments deliberately left women out. These Amendments granted citizenship,