#MeToo - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Fri, 12 May 2023 15:34:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png #MeToo - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 Woolly Mammoth’s New Leader Wants to Run the Most Woke Theater in Washington https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/01/05/woolly-mammoth-theatre-maria-manuela-goyanes-new-leader-wants-to-run-the-most-woke-theater-in-washington/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=woolly-mammoth-theatre-maria-manuela-goyanes-new-leader-wants-to-run-the-most-woke-theater-in-washington Sun, 05 Jan 2020 23:00:45 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=969979 Maria Manuela Goyanes was six weeks into her job as the new artistic director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company last year when one of her board members cursed her out and resigned. Why? It had to do with he/she/they. The company had decided to add preferred pronouns to Woolly’s website and dispatched an employee to […]

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What It’s Like to Be a Woman Who Sues Her Employer for Gender Discrimination https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/10/09/what-its-like-woman-sues-employer-gender-discrimination-kerrie-campbell/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-its-like-woman-sues-employer-gender-discrimination-kerrie-campbell Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:52:06 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=872680 Kerrie Campbell, an ex-partner at Chadbourne & Parke, sued her firm—essentially torching her Big Law career. “After I’d been there a while, there was a distribution of information. I was in the top 20 or higher for revenue generation but like the bottom third in compensation—it was horrific. I’d had 29 years in the business. […]

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Every Response So Far From People Who Participated in Mark Halperin’s New Book https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/08/19/every-response-so-far-from-people-who-participated-in-mark-halperins-new-book/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=every-response-so-far-from-people-who-participated-in-mark-halperins-new-book Mon, 19 Aug 2019 20:13:04 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=820061 Why would anyone help rehabilitate Mark Halperin’s career? That was a question lots of people asked after Politico reported Sunday that the disgraced pundit has interviewed more than 75 “top Democratic strategists” for a new book about how to beat President Trump. Some of the people Politico reported spoke to him have commented on why they spoke […]

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Justin Fairfax Leaves Law Firm, but No Wrongdoing Found https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/07/01/justin-fairfax-leaves-law-firm-but-no-wrongdoing-found/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=justin-fairfax-leaves-law-firm-but-no-wrongdoing-found Mon, 01 Jul 2019 22:05:55 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=762495 An investigation into Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax by the law firm where he was a partner has concluded with no finding of wrongdoing. The firm, Morrison & Foerster, launched an internal investigation in February after allegations arose from two women (unconnected to the firm) who accused Fairfax of sexual assault. The investigation found no […]

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The Inside Story of Mike Isabella’s Fallen Empire https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/11/26/the-inside-story-of-mike-isabellas-fallen-empire/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-inside-story-of-mike-isabellas-fallen-empire Mon, 26 Nov 2018 23:09:11 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=533233 When Isabella Eatery opened, no one imagined it would close nine months later—and certainly not like this. It was a Friday in late August, and staff at the Eatery, an upscale food hall in Tysons Galleria, were arriving for what would probably be another lackluster lunch service when a manager was approached by an employee […]

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Meet DC’s Leading #MeToo Lawyer https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/06/14/meet-debra-katz-dc-leading-metoo-lawyer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meet-debra-katz-dc-leading-metoo-lawyer Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:12:16 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=395015 After work on a recent Tuesday, Debra Katz steps onto a stage in the back room of the City Club of Washington, before an audience of three dozen members of the International Women’s Forum. The all-female crowd has arrived to sip wine and hear the powerhouse lawyer’s take on tonight’s topic: “The Harvey Weinstein Scandal, […]

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Farewell to The Hill’s Gloriously Ridiculous “50 Most Beautiful” List https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/04/19/hill-50-most-beautiful-list-ends/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hill-50-most-beautiful-list-ends Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:11:22 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=352636 If you weren’t in it before, you will never make The Hill’s “50 Most Beautiful” list. The publication announced Wednesday it would discontinue the annual frothy roundup of aesthetically pleasing DC residents after a 14-year run. The post did not waste much time elaborating on the reasons why. The “50 Most Beautiful” list was the […]

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Under Her Command, Performance of Female Recruits Soared. Then the Marines Fired Her. https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/03/27/kate-germano-fired-marines-fight-like-a-girl-book/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kate-germano-fired-marines-fight-like-a-girl-book Tue, 27 Mar 2018 21:37:24 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=334982 In 2015, Kate Germano became the first woman to be fired from the Marine Corps Fourth Recruit Training Battalion. Why? After one year, the 1,000 women under her command equaled their male counterparts in shooting qualifications, injuries and behavioral issues had decreased, and their quality of life had improved, reasons she maintains led to her […]

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#HerToo: The Story of the DC Woman Who Helped Make Sexual Harassment Illegal https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/03/04/hertoo-40-years-ago-this-woman-helped-make-sexual-harassment-illegal-sandra-bundy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hertoo-40-years-ago-this-woman-helped-make-sexual-harassment-illegal-sandra-bundy Sun, 04 Mar 2018 23:00:05 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=312352 Robert Adler was a thirtysomething attorney at a small Washington firm in the late 1970s when a woman arrived in his office to discuss her problems at work. The woman, Sandra Bundy, was an employment specialist at DC’s Department of Corrections, where she helped former inmates find jobs after their release. About four years earlier, […]

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The Newseum Says It’s Addressing the #MeToo Era. So Why’s It Still Selling Al Franken’s Book? https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/12/13/the-newseum-says-its-addressing-the-metoo-era-so-whys-it-still-selling-al-frankens-book/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-newseum-says-its-addressing-the-metoo-era-so-whys-it-still-selling-al-frankens-book Wed, 13 Dec 2017 16:45:34 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=257948 Walk through the Newseum, and it’s almost as if the past two months haven’t happened. There’s a young Bill O’Reilly in a short clip about Fox News. There’s Matt Lauer talking about Twitter in a clip within a clip from The Daily Show. And in the gift shop, which spans two floors, there are “Make […]

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