In 2014, when Jill Abramson was fired from her job as executive editor of the New York Times, it wasn’t hard to summon feminist rage over how she was treated. When her “management style” and personality were criticized as “brusque” and “pushy,” those seemed like code words, and considered alongside her salary (less than her predecessor’s) and how she was fired (in “singularly humiliating” fashion”), it all seemed to tell a story: Though it would be misguided, as Rebecca Traister argued at the time, to attribute Abramson’s ouster to sexism alone, gender was a clear factor.
from Stories from Slate http://bit.ly/2SI7GLK
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