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From YouTube: 12th Annual Massachusetts Conference for Women
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Mayor Walsh offers remarks at the opening session of the 12th Annual Massachusetts Conference for Women, held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in South Boston. Keynote speaker Anita Hill expresses the importance of reporting sexual assault or harassment.
A
A
C
Good
morning,
how's
everyone
doing
out
there
for
good
I,
see
some
ways.
So
you
know
I've
done
this
conference
now
for
about
10
years.
I've
never
walked
in
from
the
back
of
the
room
before
I
expose.
Don't
do
that
do
not
do
them.
It
looks
much
larger
when
you
walk
in
that
way.
So,
as
Maria
said,
I
never
take
on
the
head
of
corporate
responsibility
and
communications
for
the
global
life
science,
business
of
arcadja,
darmstadt,
germany.
C
You
know
this
morning
when
I
left
the
house
I
have
four
children,
three
sons
and
I
have
about
three
years
ago
and
dropping
her
off
every
day
is
not
an
easy
thing
and
I
tell
her
in
the
morning
that
today
is
a
thumbs-up
date.
I'm,
like
you're,
going
to
be
really
brave
today,
you're
going
to
have
a
great
day,
and
she.
C
Focus
today
about
this
is
a
thumbs
up
day
for
you.
This
is
a
day
that
you
being
really
focused
on
the
power
of
your
cell
phone.
You
can
do
for
yourself
and
we've
heard
a
lot
already
this
morning
about
bravery
and
the
speaker,
I'm
going
to
introduce
you're
going
to
talk
about
bravery
as
well,
and
it's
important
to
be
praying
about
who
you
are
as
a
person
in
this
world.
C
The
contributions
you
make
to
society
who
you
are
as
a
person,
your
jobs
at
home
and
in
society
as
a
whole,
and
I
hope
that
today,
when
you're
walking
around
you're
giving
people
the
thumbs
up,
because
today's
a
day
about
you,
you
know
in
our
company
people,
often
ask
me
what
we
do
simply
said.
We
help
at
emd,
serono
made
amazing
drugs
in
the
areas
of
infertility
in
multiple
sclerosis
and
hopefully
an
ontology
in
the
future.
For
Sigma.
C
We
help
not
only
make
companies
develop
those
drugs,
we
give
them
the
tools
to
do
so,
but
we
make
food
safe.
We
help
ensure
that
their
safety
and
all
the
things
that
we're
doing
and
we
make
sure
that
all
the
supplies
that
people
need
to
really
do
great
life.
Science,
research
and
development
is
able
to
be
done
and
another
part
of
our
business
performance
materials
we
make
all
of
the
liquid
crystals
and
all
this
technology,
which
we'll
use
a
very
daily
basis.
C
I
am
so
privileged
to
be
part
of
one
person
here
of
over
200
people
at
my
company
or
taking
the
time
for
themselves,
and
it's
an
honor
and
a
privilege
to
really
be
able
to
bring
an
agenda
like
this
to
you
try
to
get
to
as
much
as
you
can
do
a
little
holiday
shopping
if
you
have
find
some
time,
but
before
we
get
the
day
really
rolling.
I
have
the
great
really
great
pleasure
of
introducing
our
final
keynote
speaker
for
this
morning.
C
C
She
became
a
vital
leader
in
both
the
civil
and
women's
rights
movements
in
1993
when
she
testified
about
her
own
experiences
of
sexual
harassment,
while
working
for
the
Supreme
Court
justice
nominee,
Clarence
Thomas
Anita
took
a
stand
to
turn
the
tide
for
women
in
the
workplace.
Her
autobiography
speaking
truth
to
power.
Inspired
the
2016
film
confirmation.
C
Two
decades
later,
she
keeps
her
legacy
alive
by
motivating
women
around
the
world.
Anita
Hills
testimony
inspired
countless
women
to
run
for
office,
shed
new
light
on
sexual
harassment
and
empowered
women
to
speak
about
their
own
experiences
with
workplace
harassment.
Now
a
law
professor
at
Brandeis,
University
Anita,
is
spearheading
restoring
the
vision,
a
project
to
revive
awareness
of
title
nine,
which
is
a
crucial
law,
mandating
equal
education
and
employment
precautions
for
women,
which
just
heard
a
little
bit
about
her
work,
plays
a
pivotal
role
in
tackling
the
equity
disparity
facing
women
in
the
workplace.
C
Today,
in
her
spare
time,
Anita
is
collaborating
with
mark
Branford
to
create
a
400-foot
painting
that
will,
for
the
first
time,
publicly
display
the
lost
texts.
A
civil
rights
activist,
Myrlie
evers-williams,
would
be
speech
at
the
1963
march
of
washington
before
she
takes
the
stage.
Let's
take
a
quick
peek
into
news
story
and
see
the
remarkable
bravery
she
illustrated
at
a
very
difficult
time.
E
Claire
knows
about
money
to
sexual
harassments
storm
around
Clarence,
Thomas
least
in
terms
of
iron
I
trust
that
the
Senate
will
confirm
this
able
men
promptly
once
it
gets
painted
I
knew
what
I
had
to
do.
I'm
going
to
tell
what
happened.
She
had
no
idea
that
she
was
walking
into
the
political
lion's
den
he's
swear
to
tell
the
whole
truth
and
nothing,
but
the
truth
so
help
you.
F
E
E
Silver
I
think
they
were
trying
to
trip
her
up.
I
was
on
trial,
I've
got
statements
from
people
to
know
or
think
watch
out
for
this
woman.
The
issue
became
my
card.
It
didn't
occur
that
an
opposition
campaign,
wage
bomb
threats
House
sexual
violence.
Why
would
someone
make
up
the
story
dispersant
about
the
true?
They
were
humiliating.
The.
F
G
E
D
G
G
It's
that
simple.
In
fact,
in
fact,
equality
demands
demands
that
women
lives
and
their
work
be
valued
the
same
as
men.
So
I
can
talk
to
you
now
for
probably
another
couple
of
hours.
If
we
had
it
about
Thomas's,
behavior
I
could
answer
some
questions
and
people
have
about
0,
which
love
the
Senators
was
exactly
the
worst
of
them.
But
I.
Can
you
find
you,
as
they
say
in
the
classroom,
I'll
refer
you
to
c-span,
where
the
tape
is
there?
It's
all
there.
G
G
Nevertheless,
in
a
survey
that
was
taken
in
1976
9
out
of
10
women
reported
to
redbook
magazine
that
they
had
been
seconds
had.
Excuse
me,
they
had
been
subjected
to
unwanted
sexual
advances
at
work
and
even
in
the
1980s,
there
were
judges
who
ruled
from
the
that
sexual
extortion
and
verbal
abuse
we're
not
civil
rights
violations.
There
was
simply
personal
matters
and,
despite
a
ruling
that
Annie
Clark
referred
to
against
the
univer
University
in
1980,
despite
that
ruling
in
favor
of
students
claims
for
protection
under
title
9.
G
The
Department
of
Education
offered
little
guidance
to
colleges
and
universities
about
how
to
process
campus
sexual
harassment
and
assault
claims
in
the
90s.
The
EEOC
is
late
as
91
in
particular,
and
that's
my
reference
point.
The
EEOC,
which
is
a
federal
agency
in
charge
of
enforcing
rules
against
sexual
harassment
in
the
workplace,
had
only
begun
to
develop
guidelines
and
the
Department
of
Education
was
still
quietly.
G
G
So
that's
why
we
were
and
against
that
backdrop
I
testified
before
the
Senate
Judiciary
Committee
and
the
testimony
came
about
because
I
was
subpoenaed.
The
subpoena
called
me
to
testify
specifically
and
I
felt
sexual
harassment
that
I
had
experienced
and
I
did.
I
talked
about
what
it
was
like
to
work
with.
Clarence
Thomas
and
I
offered
my
testimony
as
evidence
of
Judge
Thomas's
lack
of
fitness
for
the
appointment
to
the
country's
highest
court.
G
The
integrity
of
the
entire
judicial
system
was
at
stake.
For
me,
once
confirmed,
Thomas
would
be
sitting
in
judgment
of
harassment
cases.
The
matter
was
not
one
of
my
civil
rights
access
to
equal
justice
for
all
was
at
stake
and
I
knew
it
and
I
thought
the
Senate
should
know
it
as
well
days
after
the
gavel
to
the
hearing,
thou
Thomas
was
confirmed,
as
you
know,
and
I
went
back
home
to
return
to
my
life
and
seemingly
nothing
had
changed,
and
we
all
thought
that
was
the
end
of
the
story.
G
The
problem
said
that
no
woman
would
ever
come
forward
to
file
a
sexual-harassment
complaint
after
witnessing
my
treatment
during
the
confirmation
hearings
and
some
even
blamed
me
for
even
bringing
up
the
subject
saying
that
I
had
set
women
back
yet
I
got
a
letter
and
I
started
getting
thousands
of
letters.
Actually
I
got
a
letter
from
a
woman
who
described
herself
as
a
retired
teacher,
a
band
teacher
in
Oregon,
and
she
said
there
will
be
waves
of
women
after
you.
G
G
For
me,
one
of
the
most
damaging
positions
that
was
taken
with
that
I
would
hear
from
these
reporters
and
they
would
say,
of
course
they
would
say
it.
So
they
spoke
for
all
black
people
are
against
you.
How
do
you
respond
to
that
and
then
a
group
of
women,
all
the
african-american
women
in
defense
of
ourselves,
took
out
a
full-page
ad
in
The
New
York
Times,
and
they
started
this
ad
and
within
six
hours
they
got
a
thousand
people
to
sign
on
it.
G
Now
I'm
telling
you
this,
because
I'm
going
to
do
it's
kind
of
hard
to
think
back
now
about
what
that
time
was
like
in
1991
and
I
suspect
some
of
you
weren't,
born
or
even
if
you
were,
you
weren't
really
looking
a
reading.
The
New
York
tops,
but
there
was
an
energy
that
no
one
had
anticipated
and
these
stories
kept
coming
to
me,
but
they
kept
being
shared
around
the
country
and
the
concerns
haven't
been
limited
to
sexual
harassment.
G
G
G
G
G
G
G
So
where
are
we
now?
What
is
it
them?
We
have
to
do
well.
First
of
all,
we
have
to
stop
thinking
about
sexual
harassment.
It's
just
some
isolated
thing.
It
typically
occurs
in
combination
with
other
forms
of
discrimination
like
pay
discrimination
like
assignment
disparities
like
biased
reviews,
whether
the
bias
because
of
unconscious
bias,
or
not,
and
I,
like
women
who
are
being
promoted
or
excite
passed
over
for
promotions
and,
in
fact,
in
some
cases,
having
to
train
the
people
who
become
their
bosses
now.
G
It's
just
the
sense
that
you're
not
heard
when
a
guy
comes
out
five
minutes
after
you've
spoken
with
an
idea
that
you've
already
explained
and
everybody
applauds
you're,
not
probably
thinking
this
is
discrimination,
but
it
is
just
one
more
of
those
factors
that
cause
us
to
not
be
able
to
live
up
to
our
fullest
opportunities
in
our
potentials,
and,
let
me
just
say
this
for
sexual
harassment
and
sexual
assault
in
particular.
Recently,
you
have
heard
that
you
know
this
is
just
something
that
men
do.
G
We've
heard
that
in
a
particular
setting,
it's
just
what
guys
do
like
leaving
the
toilet
seat
up
right,
but
no,
no,
this
effort
to
normalize
sexual
misconduct
is
nothing
but
I
boy
applied
to
excuse,
predatory,
behavior,
whether
it
happens
in
the
workplace,
on
the
streets
or
in
our
schools.
We
must
raise
our
voices
just
as
we
did
25
years
ago
to
say
enough
is
enough.
G
So
I've
been
referring
to
these
letters
allotted
I'm,
going
to
refer
to
one
now
it
was
into.
It
was
a
got,
a
group
of
letters
from
a
seventh-grade
class.
A
teacher
had
advised
them
to.
They
had
shot
in
parts
of
the
hearings
and
they
asked
him
to
talk
about
it
and
they
wrote
me
and
one
girl
said
we
took
votes
about
who
we
think
would
win.
It
seemed
Clarence,
Thomas
had
won,
the
score,
was
30
to
19,
I,
voted
for
you
and
wish
you
had
one,
but
you
didn't.
G
Nevertheless,
she
had
figured
it
out.
She
says:
I
think
it's
unfair,
because
most
judges
are
men
and
they
usually
pick
the
men
to
win,
and
then
she
became
philosophical.
Well,
I'm,
sorry,
you
didn't
win,
but
life
has
to
go
on
and
she
was
right.
Life
does
go
on
and
mine
has
gone
on
and
it's
not
as
though
it's
been
universally
a
sort
of
this
warm
hug
around
the
world.
That
has
not
been
the
case.
I've
certainly
had
my
detractors
and
still
do
that.
G
I'm
suddenly
haunted
by
trolls,
as
many
of
you
might
be,
but
now
is
once
again
the
time
for
us
to
draw
upon
our
most
courageous
cells
so
that
when
we
look
at
the
next
seventh
grade
class,
we
will
be
able
to
tell
them
that
we
did
everything
that
we
could
in
our
power
to
end
sexual
harassment
to
end
sexual
assault
to
in
gender
discrimination
in
their
lifetime,
so
that
the
next
generation
does
not
live
what
we
and
our
mothers
live
through.
We
must
share
our
stories
with
our
daughters
and
our
sons.
G
Today
we
are
sold
to
stop
talking
about
gender
equality,
because
no
one
cares
but
I
think
that
what
I
leave
here
today
I
will
have
your
word
that
you
care,
then
you
care
about
gender
equality
and
I
would
say
so.
Those
who
tell
us
to
stop
talking
about
it.
This
is
what
I
would
say
today:
I
get
to
choose
how
and
when
I
talk
without
a
subpoena
and
I
I.
G
G
25
years
ago,
I
found
my
voice
and
I
will
not
lose
it
again,
and
you
many
of
you
out
there
found
yours
too,
and
now
it's
the
time
to
find
it
one
more
time,
and
if
you
ask
me,
if
I
would
do
it
all
over
again,
my
answer
would
be
yes,
yes,
I
would
and
I.
Thank
you
and
hope
you're
drawing
different.
Thank
you.
F
I
missed
my
cue
coming
out
here
because
I
was
talking
to
eat
a
hill.
I
was
kind
of
awestruck,
so
sorry
about
that,
I
wonder
why
I
want
to
official
welcome
everyone
here
to
the
city.
This
is
an
incredible
room.
The
amount
of
people
in
here-
thank
you
very
much
for
being
in
the
city
of
Boston
I,
want
to
thank
you
need
to
help
for
all
that
you've
been
doing
fighting
for
civil
rights
and
women's
rights
for
decades.
F
She
certainly
is
all
of
you
knows
what
tirelessly
to
increase
women's
access
to
higher
education
and
she's,
a
leader
in
the
moment
to
fight
sexual
harassment
and
assault
in
the
workplace.
I
believe
it's
important
for
me
to
say
that
sexual
harassment
or
assault
in
any
form
is
never
ever
acceptable,
no
matter
how
power
for
the
predator
or
how
high
their
office
is.
F
This
is
an
important
message
for
all
women
and
men
to
hear
and
I
think
it's
more
relevant
now
than
ever
before.
Mr.,
thank
you
for
your
advocacy
in
your
courage.
This
is
an
important
moment
in
our
country
as
a
nation
we're
confronting
who
we
are
and
who
were
deciding
to
be.
Like
many
of
you,
I
watched
in
surprise
as
the
election
results
rolled
in
last
month.
F
The
highest
glass
ceiling
is
still
yet
to
be
broken,
but
a
secretary
clinton
said
last
month
someday
someone
will
break
it
and
hopefully
sooner
that
we
may
think
right.
Now,
the
woman
in
this
room
have
been
breaking
glass
ceilings
for
years
and
even
for
decades,
we've
had
time
to
wrap
our
head
around
the
election
and
now
it's
time
to
get
back
to
work
with
a
renewed
sense
of
agency
and
a
more
passion
than
ever
before.
The
gender
wage
gap
in
discrimination,
women
face
in
the
workplace
and
the
prevalence
of
sexual
assaults
are
all
systemic
problems.
F
There
will
only
be
a
thing
of
the
past
when
all
members
of
our
community
acknowledge
them.
We
work
hard
to
dismantle
all
of
this
piece
by
piece.
That's
what
we're
doing
here
in
the
city
of
Boston.
It
has
been
a
priority
of
mine
since
day
one
is
being
near
the
city
in
Boston.
We
stand
up
for
what
is
right.
We
are
never
ever
going
to
give
up.
The
Boston
women's
workforce
council
is
about
to
release
a
report
that
tracks
wage
data
in
our
city
and
it's
the
first
of
its
kind
in
this
country.
F
Our
lead
sports
is
a
mass
mutual
insurance,
Partners
HealthCare,
Putnam,
Investments,
Rotech
pharmaceutical
in
state
street
and
its
would
stay
tree.
I
want
to
give
a
special
shout
out
to
Allison
quirk,
who
announced
her
retirement
for
all
her
great
leadership
in
the
business
community,
not
just
in
our
city,
but
in
our
great
country,
Thank,
You,
Allison,.
F
I
thank
all
these
companies
for
stepping
up
to
the
plate.
We
also
hold
free
salary
negotiation
workshops
for
women
in
Boston.
At
these
workshops,
women
develop
concrete
skills
to
use
at
the
negotiating
table.
In
recent
years,
we've
seen
more
women
take
top
leadership
roles
at
our
major
institutions
in
Boston,
but
we
still
have
a
long
way
to
go
in
our
city
in
our
country.
Whenever
I
talk
to
business
groups,
I
urge
them
to
take
the
lead
and
changing
the
culture
in
their
workplaces.
F
As
more
and
more
companies
move
their
headquarters
to
Boston,
we
are
in
the
position
to
lead
by
example
and
drive
that
culture
shift
forward.
Many
women
in
this
room
will
be
at
the
forefront.
We
are
doing
just
a
few
things
in
Boston's
and
continue
to
move
forward.
If
you
want
to
learn
more
about
what
we're
doing
in
Boston,
please
contact
megan
Costello,
the
executive
director
of
my
office
of
women's
advancement.
F
She
is
with
us
here
today
before
I
wrap
up
I
just
want
to
thank
professor
Hill
as
well,
because
when
she
spoke
about
ideas
in
the
boardroom
by
women
carried
out
by
men,
that's
things
we
have
to
change
in
this
country.
We
have
to
let
people
realize
that
that's
not
acceptable
anymore
and
in
our
city
of
Boston
we're
going
to
make
sure
that
that's
not
the
case.
I
want
to
take
all
of
you
for
joining
me
today.
F
It's
an
honor
to
have
so
many
strong,
creative
leaders
here,
I
want
to
thank
you
for
it'll
came
up
from
out
of
town
to
this
conference.
I
welcome
you
to
Boston
I,
encourage
you
to
explore
our
city
and
thank
you
to
the
Massachusetts
Conference
of
women
for
making
our
state
in
our
region
a
better
place.
Thank
you
and
merry
happy
holidays.
Merry
Christmas.
B
Are
you
guys
ready
to
take
on
the
day?
This
was
wonderful.
Wasn't
it
a
great
way
to
start
the
day?
It's
been
exhilarating
still
so
much
in
store
tonight
before
you
wrap
up,
can
I
just
say
something
and
share
something
with
you
guys
a
little
more
than
a
week
ago,
my
mother
passed
away,
and
she
was
this
force
this
amazing
force
and
when
I
knew
I
had
to
do
this.
I
just
wanted
to
I
wanted
to
say
I
can't
do
it.
I
just
want
to
lie
in
bed.
B
I
want
to
remember
my
mother
I,
don't
want
to
go
back
to
work.
This
is
such
a
difficult
time
and
I
can't
tell
you.
First
of
all,
my
mother
is
looking
down
saying
you
will
go
to
that
conference.
You
will
get
up
at
six
o'clock
in
the
morning
and
you
will
get
out
there
and
be
with
all
of
these
women.
So
thank
you,
mom
and
thank
you
for
being
here
for
being
such
a
great
audience
and
I
really
I
really
appreciate
it.
The
speakers
were
so
inspiring.
B
B
Thank
you
for
letting
me
share
that
if
you'd
like
to
meet
any
Clark
she's
going
to
host
book
signings
in
the
exhibit
hall,
that's
next
to
the
bookstore
starting
now
Carla
will
she'll
be
signing
books
at
11am
at
the
bookstore
Anita
Hill
will
not
be
signing
books
because
you
saw
that
she's
not
signing
anything
right
now,
but
she
will
do
a
meet
and
greet
and
take
selfies
in
the
book
signing
area
if
you're
with
markandel.
Please
come
to
the
stage
area.
When
this
whole
thing
breaks
we'll
be
taking
group
photos
of
each
organization.
B
B
Look
at
the
exhibitors
guide,
I'm
going
to
be
at
one
of
our
boots
there
for
the
next
hour.
Taking
pictures,
if
you
feel
like
taking
a
picture
with
me,
if
not
just
say,
hi,
if
not
walk
on
by
it's
all
right,
I
understand
at
the
first
shot
of
the
brick
breakfast
sessions
that
starts
at
ten
a.m.
all.
You
have
to
do
is
look
at
your
conference
out
there.