There's a legal loophole that's preventing most sexual harassment cases from seeing the light of day - here's how to fix it

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October 24, 2017 8:36 PM

Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment suit against the founder of Fox News, Roger Ailes. She received a $20 million settlement.

In 2016, former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment suit against Roger Ailes, the founder of Fox News. Carlson won a $20 million settlement and Ailes was eventually fired. However, Carlson says that most women's sexual harassment stories are kept secret because of a legal loophole. Following is a transcript of the video.

Gretchen Carlson:

harasser can stay and nobody ever knows about it. So that’s inherently wrong to me. It’s outrageous that women are being silenced in this way on this specific issue. So what I’ve been trying to do on Capitol Hill is take the secrecy out of it. So I’ve been meeting with senators for the last year to try to make this a bipartisan effort. Nothing gets done on Capitol Hill right now. So I know and understand that we need to have bipartisan support on this for it to ever become a reality. And so on this issue Democrats tend to be on my side. I’m really working hard to get Republicans to at least do baby steps and get rid of the secrecy element. And wouldn’t it be wonderful that we would come forward with a bill that would support women and might even wind up on Donald Trump’s desk.

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