Yesterday the news broke that NY Times Editor Jill Abramson was being replaced by managing editor Dean Baquet:
New York Times Co. (NYT) unexpectedly ousted Jill Abramson as executive editor after less than three years on the job, naming Dean Baquet as her replacement.
Baquet, 57, previously the newspaper's managing editor, takes over immediately, the Times said today in a statement. Baquet becomes the first African-American executive editor in the newspaper's 162-year history.
Now the New Yorker lays out that Abramson was fired for being one of those pushy women who think they deserve pay equal to their male counterparts:
As with any such upheaval, there’s a history behind it. Several weeks ago, I’m told, Abramson discovered that her pay and her pension benefits as both executive editor and, before that, as managing editor were considerably less than the pay and pension benefits of Bill Keller, the male editor whom she replaced in both jobs. “She confronted the top brass,” one close associate said, and this may have fed into the management’s narrative that she was “pushy,” a characterization that, for many, has an inescapably gendered aspect.
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A third associate told me, “She found out that a former deputy managing editor”—a man—“made more money than she did” while she was managing editor. “She had a lawyer make polite inquiries about the pay and pension disparities, which set them off.”