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Mentorship November 16, 2016
Megyn Kelly has called on women to stand together and fight sexual harassment in the workplace.
The Fox News anchor used her appearance on Wednesday’s “CBS This Morning” to urge victims of inappropriate behavior to not tolerate it and instead seek out powerful female figures for advice on how best to fight back.
She was promoting her new book, “Settle for More,” in which she details the alleged sexual harassment by her former boss at Fox News, Roger Ailes.
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Kelly gives more information on the “disheartening” experience of working with Ailes in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, saying, “When [sexual harassment] happens at the hands of a CEO, it is particularly dangerous because [to] whom are you going to report it? Especially at a company like Fox, where Roger Ailes was like a king.”
Ailes has issued a statement of denial, saying, “I categorically deny the allegations Megyn Kelly makes about me. I worked tirelessly to promote and advance her career, as Megyn herself admitted to Charlie Rose.”
While Kelly admits to appreciating Ailes’ professional help, she stands firm in saying that his harassments were just “gross [abuses] of power.” She adds, “It’s tough to see him as a good person still, you know? I don’t understand how a good person could do the things he did. But it’s a loss. I feel a sense of loss.”
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And while Kelly says that she never asked to make any of this news public, she does believe that there is importance in bringing these issues to light. “I think that if this thing stays under the rug without any of the prominent people involved coming out and really telling the story, we do ourselves no good,” she says.
However, although the journalist advocates against victimizing women, Kelly herself doesn’t identify with feminism. “I find it’s very alienating to at least half of the women in the country,” she says. “It has just come to include in particular a pro-choice agenda and that’s no place a journalist should be doing.”
Instead, she believes in simply using “adversity as an opportunity” to expose you to bigger issues and grow. “And while, present day, we are not where we ought to be as women, your daughter and mine, they will be,” Megyn Kelly says. “Those of us in our 30s and 40s are going to have to take a few more bumps and bruises along the way. But that’s okay.”
