Publication Date: 2018-01-03
Susan Chira, a senior correspondent and editor on gender issues, and Catrin Einhorn, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, discuss their recent investigation, “How Tough Is It to Change a Culture of Harassment? Ask Women at Ford.” Their story reveals “the stubborn persistence of harassment in an industry once the exclusive preserve of men, where abuses can be especially brazen” at the Ford plant in Chicago. They revealed decades of abuse despite the fact that women were in one of the country’s most powerful unions, and despite the fact that a federal agency and then a federal judge sided with them, and even after independent monitors policed the factory floors for several years.
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