The co-hosts of “The View” spoke about their own experiences with workplace harassment while discussing Joy Behar’s new essay on the subject.
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Sunny Hostin, October 14, 2018, New York City
Sunny Hostin reflects on her experiences as a young lawyer.
meanwhile Friday’s episode is sceneryas Hostin detailed her own experiences as a young woman in the workplace, the 55-year-old co-host and her colleagues talked about Joy Behar’s newly published essay on workplace harassment.
“When I came out to the Department of Justice and when I joined a law firm,” Hostin said. “We had a choice [to report harassment]However, since the structure was patriarchal, I did not dare to use them in order to avoid losing my status. ”
Ms. Hostin also talked about how men treat her during job interviews and how she would “bind” her breasts during meetings with potential employers.
“As everyone knows, I had plastic surgery and had my breasts reduced. I remember when I was a young lawyer there were many interviews where the man didn’t look at me at all. ” she said. And started tying her breasts to get the job. ”
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Hostin spoke to PEOPLE last year about her breast reduction and lift, as well as the liposuction she underwent in the summer of 2022. As she said at the time, she wants to start a conversation about these types of surgeries.De-stigmatize them by calling them “health decisions” and It’s a self-care decision. ”
“I thought I would be embarrassed, like, ‘Oh my god, I’m getting plastic surgery just like all these crazy celebrities.’ But I’m not embarrassed at all,” she says. said at the time. “And I hope that by sharing my story, more people will be helped. If they care as much about their body as I did, I hope that by sharing my story, I can help them feel better.” You just have to do what it takes to do it.”
Friday’s conversation took place as Behar’s essay “#MeToo: The Early Years” was published in Air Mail. In her essay, she detailed her experience of workplace harassment as a teacher in the 60s.
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The essay is the first chapter of Behar’s upcoming memoir, which PEOPLE confirmed in November. Behar told her co-hosts: scenery In the 1960s, women had to “fend for themselves” when it came to workplace harassment, Friday said. “We didn’t have HR, we didn’t have pepper spray,” she said on the show.
“We either yelled at them or gouged out their eyes with keys. And such behavior was dismissed as ‘boys will be boys’ back then.”
In her essay, Behar describes the moment when the head of the English department told her, “I could have slammed you against the blackboard.”
“I was torn. On the one hand, I was disgusted. On the other hand, I was an independent, single woman with no trust fund waiting for me. And the chair of the English department was… She loved my lessons,” Behar wrote. . “My heart skipped a beat.”
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Sunny Hostin in New York City, April 9, 2018
In November, publisher Regalo Press announced that Ms. Behar’s book would showcase her “acute powers of observation and ability to vividly recreate the small details and fleeting moments that make up life.”
The memoir, which is expected to be released in late 2024 or early 2025, has yet to be named, but it will explore Behar’s thoughts on relatives, hair, bullying and love life, as she “targets everyone and everything, including herself.” It is planned to be drawn.
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