Gretchen Carlson: My fight to stop sexual harassment
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Five years ago she successfully sued her former boss at Fox News, Roger Ailes, for sexual harassment.
Now, American broadcaster Gretchen Carlson tells Ed Butler about how she helped kick off the #MeToo movement, why major American companies continue to gag employees and protect workplace predators through non-disclosure agreements, and how she is fighting in Washington DC to make the working environment safer for women.
Producer: Nisha Patel
(Picture: Gretchen Carlson; Credit: Stephanie Cowen)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. Today, five years on from the |
| 0:07.4 | dawn of the Me Too movement, how much progress has been made protecting women's rights in the workplace? |
| 0:13.6 | One woman who did as much as anyone to set the ball rolling describes the agony of blowing the |
| 0:18.9 | whistle on a workplace predator. |
| 0:21.3 | You watch your career disappear in front of your eyes. |
| 0:24.8 | They take away plum assignments from you, |
| 0:26.8 | and they suddenly give you a bad performance review, |
| 0:29.3 | and you're suddenly ostracized from the in-group. |
| 0:32.5 | It's a way of trying to make your life so much like hell that you'll leave, right? |
| 0:37.9 | Why do we do this to people? |
| 0:39.9 | Why do we think that's okay when they simply have had the courage to come forward? |
| 0:43.8 | One woman's fight against sexual harassment. |
| 0:46.4 | That's today's Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:51.1 | I'm Gretchen Carlson and I am the woman who took down Roger Ailes at Fox News almost five years ago. |
| 0:58.1 | Big lawsuit, big hand. Fox News set to pay a whopping $20 million to settle a lawsuit with former anchor Gretchen Carlson, who accused her old boss and former Fox News CEO, Roger Ayl. |
| 1:11.3 | She sued him over sexual harassment claims, and it was Carlson's accusations that prompted at least 20 other women to come forward with their similar stories. |
| 1:20.5 | You know, I had 11 years there. It was originally my dream job. I don't think any woman or man ever expects to, you know, find a toxic |
| 1:31.1 | workplace situation, but that's what ended up happening to me. And I decided when they were |
| 1:38.3 | ending my career and it wasn't my choice that if I didn't speak up, who would? If I were to ask you |
| 1:44.1 | now, I mean, how toxic was that workplace environment, would you |
| 1:49.7 | be able to tell me? |
| 1:51.8 | No, because I had to sign a stringent NDA when my case was resolved. Unfortunately, |
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