Tina Brown said women have to ‘bust a gut’ to receive the level of respect given to male counterpartsTina Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, has said that women have to work harder than men in order to make progress in the media industry. Brown said women “have to be gold in a silver job” to to be rated as highly as their male counterparts. Brown described Weinstein as an “intimidating and ferocious man” in a column for the New York Times last month and said crossing him was “scary”. But the difference this time is that men are reviewing their own conduct, thinking, I’d better clean up my act.”Brown edited the New Yorker for six years after leaving Vanity Fair in 1992. As well as co-founding Talk she has also edited Tatler, written a biography of Princess Diana and created the Daily Beast, a news and opinion website.

Source: The Guardian November 14, 2017 00:00 UTC