Barbara Ehrenreich speaks on the need to expand the conversation about sexual harassment.
A New York Times investigation published today put names and specifics to unsourced stories that had been circulating for years, alleging that the filmmaker-performer pressured five female colleagues to watch or listen to him masturbate.
Bill O’Reilly paid a $32 million settlement to Fox legal analyst Lis Wiehl to forestall a sexual harassment lawsuit. A Media Matters review finds that Wiehl received a steady stream of sexually suggestive and demeaning on-air commentary from O’Reilly.
Unions are the best vehicle to halt workplace harassment. But the Weinstein revelations show the Screen Actors Guild has failed its membership.
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What I learned in 1991 is no less true today and no less important for people to understand: responses to sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence must start with a belief that women matter as much as the powerful men they encounter at work or at school, whether those men are bosses or professors, colleagues or fellow students.
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Some of the things hosts of "Fox & Friends" have said to Gretchen Carlson on the air.
As the head of Fox News, Ailes has deployed his survival skills frequently to weather scandals of career-ending proportions and a bitter power struggle with Rupert Murdoch’s oldest son, Lachlan. But in the wake of Gretchen Carlson’s shocking sexual-harassment lawsuit against Ailes, there are signs that the 76 year-old’s luck may have finally expired.
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