How we can end sexual harassment at work | Gretchen Carlson
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4.1 • 12.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2017
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
When Gretchen Carlson spoke out about her experience of workplace sexual harassment, it inspired women everywhere to take their power back and tell the world what happened to them. In a remarkable, fierce talk, she tells her story -- and identifies three specific things we can all do to create safer places to work. "We will no longer be underestimated, intimidated or set back," Carlson says. "We will stand up and speak up and have our voices heard. We will be the women we were meant to be."
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| 0:00.0 | This TED Talk features TV journalist and women's empowerment advocate Gretchen Carlson, recorded live at TED Women 2017. |
| 0:11.0 | All I wanted was a much-deserved promotion, and he told me to get up on the desk and spread them. |
| 0:20.0 | All the men in my office wrote down on a piece of paper the sexual favors that I could do for |
| 0:25.0 | them. |
| 0:26.1 | All I had asked for was an office with a window. |
| 0:30.5 | I asked for his advice about how I could get a bill out of committee. |
| 0:35.0 | He asked me if I brought my knee pads. |
| 0:38.3 | Those are just a few of the horrific stories |
| 0:42.3 | that I heard from women over the last year |
| 0:45.3 | as I've been investigating workplace sexual harassment. |
| 0:48.3 | And what I've found out is that it's an epidemic across the world. It's a horrifying reality for millions of women |
| 0:58.0 | when all they want to do every day is go to work. |
| 1:02.0 | Sexual harassment doesn't discriminate. |
| 1:06.0 | You can wear a skirt, |
| 1:08.0 | hospital scrubs, army fatigues. |
| 1:12.0 | You can be younger or old, married or single, black or white. |
| 1:16.0 | You can be a Republican, a Democrat, or an independent. |
| 1:20.7 | I heard from so many women, police officers, members of our military, financial assistance, actors, engineers, |
| 1:31.4 | lawyers, bankers, accountants, teachers, journalists. |
| 1:39.8 | Sexual harassment, it turns out, is not about sex. |
| 1:49.9 | It's about power and about what somebody does to you to try and take away your power. |
| 1:53.3 | And I'm here today to encourage you |
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