Anita Hill on Sexual Harassment: ‘Why Isn’t This Seen as a Public Health Crisis?’

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HILL: “Why aren't there questions in the debates about what the candidates plans will be to address gender based violence? We know it exists. We're all horrified at those stories. And if you look at the numbers, to me what I see, when you talk about one out of three women and one out of five or six men who have been victims of sexual assault, we're talking about a public health crisis. We're talking about a public safety crisis. We're talking about the rate of harassment in the workplace being an economic crisis for women. When we talk about the fact that fifty women a month are killed in domestic violence instances, we are talking about not only health and safety, we're talking about the ability, women's ability to find spaces to live in and to feel safe. So why isn't this, like why isn't this seen as a public health crisis?"