Opinion | Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade Enrages Twitter With Comment About Pregnant Women Getting Jobs – By Melissa Willets (the List) / May 6, 2022
Acomment about pregnant women’s ability to do their jobs made by Fox News host Brian Kilmeade has landed him in seriously hot water (via Today). The dad of three was discussing the appointment of Nina Jankowicz, whom President Joe Biden picked to head up his Disinformation Advisory Board (via Newsweek). The acclaimed author is also pregnant and puzzlingly, this is not sitting well with the “Fox & Friends” host.
“I’m not sure how you get a job and then you just — you can’t do a job for three months,” Kilmeade said on an episode of his Fox News morning program, alluding to maternity leave. He added, “I’m not faulting her, but I don’t know why you would give someone a job that you think is so important.”
Interestingly, Jankowicz has written about pregnancy discrimination in the past in a piece for Wired published in January of 2022 entitled “The Internet Is Failing Moms-to-Be,” also tweeting in part about the story, “Online, pregnant people are not seen as worthy of rights, autonomy, or respect.”
It seems this maddening experience is also true on TV.
