Women in Media Are Reportedly Getting Blacklisted for Filing Sexual Harassment Suits
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It’s been nearly three years since Fox News host Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment suit against then-CEO Roger Ailes, prompting a slew of similar high-profile suits and executive oustings both at Fox and at other major networks. Media’s MeToo moment is as visible as Hollywood’s, toppling giants like CBS’s Les Moonves, NBC’s Matt Lauer, and Charlie Rose. But the women who filed suits against them and men like them say they too are now paying a professional price.
In a piece for Vanity Fair, Diana Falzone, a former Fox News contributor who sued the network for gender discrimination in 2017, noted that she had heard from a number women in media who settled lawsuits against sexual harassers that they were finding themselves unofficially blacklisted from other jobs. “The very same people who publicly applaud you for speaking up about bad behavior will never hire you into their own organizations because you are forever pegged as a whistleblower and a troublemaker,” one woman told her. Another said her lawsuit against a harasser came up during an interview: