Gretchen Carlson Is Raising Her Voice Against Gender Inequality

Photo credit: Allie Holloway
Photo credit: Allie Holloway

From Town & Country

Two and a half years after #MeToo went full throttle, let’s remember that it was Gretchen Carlson who fired the movement’s opening shot by exposing the bullying sexual harassment of the late Roger Ailes, then the all-powerful CEO of Fox News.

She raised her voice when everyone else was still silent, a full year before Harvey Weinstein was exposed as not just a creep but a criminal predator. In the years since, she has used her reporter’s tenacity and Stanford and Oxford smarts to wage a proxy battle on behalf of all women.

With her organization Lift Our Voices, Carlson is leading the campaign to bring the heat of #MeToo to the workplace, from fast food restaurants to fire stations, and working to end the secret chambers of NDAs. She won Senator Lindsey Graham’s support for a bill that would ban companies from mandating forced arbitration, a bill that the House has already passed.

She’s not just a heroine of mine—Gretchen deserves a thank-you note from all of us. Turns out this onetime Miss America was the woman America needed all along.

Tina Brown has been the editor of Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, and Talk. She hosts the podcast TBD with Tina Brown.


This story appears in the Summer 2020 issue of Town & Country. SUBSCRIBE NOW

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