Cindy Gallop Asks for 'Harvey Weinsteins of Our Industry' to be Exposed — and People Are Answering
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Diversity advocate Cindy Gallop, who issued a call to action on Facebook earlier this week for advertising professionals to speak up about sexual harrassers in the industry, says she has been inundated with emails “telling truly appalling stories from women, and a few men who want to see justice done, from our industry all around the world.”
The Facebook post, she says, came in response to the outpouring of sexual harrassment stories allegedly committed by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein over the decades.
Virtually everyone who reached out to her is requesting anonymity due to fear of retaliation from their companies, says Gallop, a consultant and founder of IfWeRanTheWorld. The complaints, she says, are about much more than white male ad industry executives “abusing their power.” They also include stories about HR departments and agency management firing sexual harassers without publicizing why; male leaders who stood by, were complicit in or laughed when harassment took place; and women who were “culturally brainwashed” to be complicit, she says.
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