Former Comcast Employees Test the Limits of the #MeToo Movement
- Women allege harassment, want cable company to bulk up HR
- Focus shifts from firing bad actors to systemwide reform
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The #MeToo movement is based on a basic premise: Speak up. For a lot of women, that’s gotten results. Many of the alleged perpetrators have been fired or exiled. Harvey Weinstein is facing criminal prosecution.
But as a trio of former Comcast workers are finding, speaking up has its limits. Two months ago, Rylinda Rhodes, Laterrica Perry and Jennifer McHenry hand-delivered a petition with thousands of signatures to Comcast’s Philadelphia headquarters, alleging widespread harassment and demanding reforms to corporate policies that they say don’t do enough to protect women.