The recent ouster of Roger Ailes as the CEO of Fox News speaks volumes about our partial progress on issues of sexual harassment in the workplace. For centuries, women were harassed without a name or a remedy for the problem. And when they experienced a “problem” with their supervisor, the problem was always theirs, not his. All that has changed, as Ailes’s resignation reflects. But the fact that his behavior persisted over a quarter century, and involved, by current count, at least 25 women, shows the progress yet to be made.
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