“On one side of the divide was Anita Hill, 35, a specialist in the dry area of ​​commercial law, a reserved woman who by all accounts is more likely to listening than talking. On the other was Clarence Thomas, 43, a courteous man who had enjoyed a reputation since college for treating women with particular courtesy and respect” (Smolowe). She was a law professor and he would soon be appointed a Supreme Court justice. The result of this horrific process has made sexual harassment in the workplace less tolerable