Book description
A thoroughly researched and deeply personal examination of how women unintentionally condone workplace abuse in a post-#MeToo world-and what we can do to change things for the better.
When Reah Bravo began working at the Charlie Rose show, the open secret of Rose's conduct towards women didn't deter her from…
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Reah Bravo experienced repeated acts of workplace sexual harassment by her boss, the television host and cultural icon Charlie Rose, for a year and a half. She asked herself: Why did she not protest when the harassment was occurring? After all, had she spoken out at the time, rather than years later, perhaps Rose would not have been able to harass or abuse others. Indeed, 35 women eventually came forward with accusations of workplace sexual harassment and abuse.
Bravo explores the complexities of her response, which was to be—in her word—complicit. This research-laced memoir delves into the messiness of…
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