Report: ESPN a pit of sexism, hostility toward women

But interviews conducted by The Boston Globe with roughly two dozen current and former employees portray a “locker room culture,” where men regularly make unwanted sexual advances to female colleagues, given unsolicited shoulder rubs and rate women based on their looks.

Several women interviewed by the Globe detailed their fear of losing their jobs and the lengths to which they would go to keep them.

In some instances, the women said, they hid their pregnancies or felt pressured to take short maternity leaves in order to protect their positions. Women who were able to return from a maternity leave often found themselves in less desirable positions than before, with their contracts reduced or not renewed, with significant pay cuts, or replaced by men.  – READ MORE

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