Trump Is Quietly Making It Even Harder To Report Sexual Harassment And Discrimination

[Benton]

Quote:The clearest example came in March. It received little coverage at the time. President Donald Trump reversed an Obama-era order that forbid federal contractors from keeping secret sexual harassment and discrimination cases. The 2014 rule prohibited these companies, which employ about 26 million people, from forcing workers to resolve complaints through arbitration, an increasingly common method businesses use to settle disputes out of the public eye.

“This was a clear sign of the administration silencing women,” said Jessica Stender, senior staff attorney for Equal Rights Advocates, a women’s rights nonprofit.

And it’s only a small piece of the picture. “The Trump administration has a clear anti-women agenda,” Stender said. “I say that with complete certainty. This is an all-out, full frontal attack on women.”

They're not doing themselves any favors with the language here.

Trump's agenda from day 1 — all the chest pounding rhetoric about helping out American workers aside — has been pro-business. This move is pro-business. The logic behind it is about saving companies money; women's rights probably weren't factored into it at all.

So, no, Trump doesn't have an anti-women agenda. He's got a pro-big business agenda. She would've helped her cause if she would've been more upfront about that. Instead of saying it's a full frontal attack on women, just say he's a sleazy conman helping out his cronies, and women might get hurt in the process.