The Inequality Beneath the Sexual-Harassment Headlines
The problem is worse in low-profile, low-accountability, and low-wage industries.
The Weinstein Effect strikes again. Following The New York and ’s revelations about the film executive and alleged serial sexual harasser Harvey Weinstein, Lockhart Steele of Vox Media, the screenwriter , the critic Leon Wieseltier, and, on Thursday, of MSNBC have found themselves outed and, in some cases, fired for alleged past behavior. Preceding Weinstein were reports about alleged harassment at and , and the alleged predatory behavior of , Donald Trump, and Bill Cosby, among others. Many more disclosures , as the politics, technology, news, and entertainment industries come to terms with the pervasive problems of gender discrimination and sexual harassment in their ranks.
