Women’s Group Calls On The Weinstein Company Board to Fire Harvey Weinstein
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, October 5, 2017
Women’s Group Calls On The Weinstein Company Board to Fire Harvey Weinstein
Earlier today, The New York Times broke a story detailing decades of sexual harassment allegations against The Weinstein Company’s Harvey Weinstein.
Nita Chaudhary, co-founder of UltraViolet, a leading women’s advocacy organization, issued the following statement, calling on the board of The Weinstein Company to immediately fire Harvey Weinstein:
“Harvey Weinstein’s decades of predatory behavior towards the women his company employed with zero consequences is the textbook example of rape culture in Hollywood. Weinstein’s attempts to justify his behavior are flat out insulting to all sexual harassment survivors, including the women who were forced to endure his abusive, creepy and relentless advances.
“The board of The Weinstein Company must prove that it stands by its company’s sexual harassment policy, and that this policy applies to everyone, including its owners, by firing Harvey Weinstein immediately.”
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UltraViolet is an online community of over 1,000,000 women and men who want to take collective action to expose and fight sexism in the public sector, private sector and the media. Find out more at WeAreUltraViolet.org.