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Hollywood Commission chairperson Anita Hill responded today to the conviction of Harvey Weinstein on three sex crime charges by a Los Angeles jury that could mean a sentence of 18 to 24 years behind bars for the Oscar-winning producer. Many of Weinstein’s accusers have said they were lured to hotel-room…

The Hollywood Commission is launching its second Entertainment Survey with the goal of giving voice to entertainment industry workers. Chaired by Anita Hill and founded by board members Kathleen Kennedy and Nina Shaw, the Hollywood Commission was formed in 2017 to bring together entertainment…

EXCLUSIVE: Anita Hill, who was thrust into the national spotlight when she accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, is launching her own podcast. The author, lawyer and feminist icon has teamed up with Malcolm Gladwell's Pushkin Industries to launch Getting Even with Anita Hill. The…

The Anita Hill-led Hollywood Commission has partnered with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to develop a pilot program to protect workers at independent production companies from workplace misconduct. Founded in 1993 to protect the rights of farmworkers, the CIW received the 2014 Presidential Medal for its efforts…

Bullying in Hollywood "is an industrywide problem," said Anita Hill, chair of the Hollywood Commission, during a panel discussion Thursday titled “Bullying and Toxic Workplaces in Hollywood.” "The level of bullying, to put it mildly, is deeply troubling," she said, noting that a commission survey of nearly 10,000…

The Anita Hill-led Hollywood Commission released new data on Friday from its recent survey of entertainment industry workers showing "pervasive issues of toxic workplaces, bullying and abuse in entertainment" and highlighting "the dire situation among the industry's assistants and production workers." "Harvey…

The Hollywood Commission has released its final report and recommendations – lots of them – based on its groundbreaking survey of sexual harassment and discrimination in the entertainment industry, concluding that while Hollywood has made real progress towards being more diverse and inclusive, "There is much more to…

EXCLUSIVE: Anita Hill, chair of The Hollywood Commission, is praising the entertainment industry for embracing its role as a "world influencer" in advancing diversity and inclusion, but says that Hollywood can and must do better. "To its credit, the Hollywood community has signaled that it is moving in a new…

One in five industry women who responded to the Anita Hill-led Hollywood Commission's survey on sexual harassment said they'd been sexually assaulted at work over the course of their careers. And 1 in 20 said that they were sexually assaulted on the job in just the 12 months prior to taking the groundbreaking survey…

Hollywood has a bullying problem. "Hollywood has an entrenched and endemic issue with bullying that is exacerbated by the industry's power imbalances," according to the latest report from the Anita Hill-led Hollywood Commission for Eliminating Harassment and Advancing Equality in the Workplace. The report – the third…

The latest report from the Anita Hill-led Hollywood Commission has found a "remarkable bias gap" among workers in the entertainment industry, with industry women across all demographics "roughly twice as likely as their male counterparts to experience every form of biased or unfair behavior." The report also found…

Despite groundbreaking gains made by the Time's Up and #MeToo movements over the last three years, the vast majority of workers in the entertainment industry still don't believe that those in positions of power will be held accountable for sexual harassment, according to a first-of-its-kind industry-wide worker survey…