Has Gretchen Carlson become the unlikely voice/figure in the fight against workplace sexual harassment. Better question do the FOX News faithful detest her for setting off the firestorm of sexual harassment lawsuits against FOX and some of their personalities- PB/TK
Gretchen Carlson: ‘Every damn woman still has a story’ about harassment April 6, 2017
Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson has a warning for women dealing with sexual harassment at work.
“We still live in a he-said, she-said culture, unfortunately, and they’re not going to believe you,” she said.
Carlson sued Fox News boss Roger Ailes for sexual harassment last year, ultimately forcing his ouster from the network. Fox News’ parent company, 21st Century Fox, paid her $20 million.
Now advertisers are fleeing the network’s biggest draw in prime time, Bill O’Reilly, after a report that five women were paid a total of $13 million to settle accusations of sexual harassment and verbal abuse against him. The parent company has said O’Reilly denies the allegations.
Carlson spoke Thursday at the Women in the World conference in New York. She did not address the O’Reilly or Ailes matters directly, but she said workplace sexual harassment remains pervasive.
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