Robert Foster, a first-term Mississippi state representative running for governor, declined to allow a female reporter to cover a campaign trip — that is, unless she brought a male colleague with her. What is the 'Billy Graham rule' he cited?
State Rep. Robert Foster, a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of Mississippi, speaks at a candidates forum in Biloxi in June.
Campbell and her editor thought"the request was sexist and an unnecessary use of resources given this reporter's experience covering Mississippi politics.” Campbell says the practice has unfair and untoward implications for her and other women.Foster has faced a sharp backlash for his action, and for his invocation of the so-called Billy Graham rule. So what exactly is this rule and what is the debate around it?The practice is named after William Franklin “Billy” Graham Jr.
Women’s bodies, said Merritt, were viewed as objects of temptation. Religious leaders were meant to be above reproach, and in order to maintain that status they avoided being alone with women, Merritt said. 60% of male managers said they were uncomfortable mentoring, socializing with or working alone with women in the workplace.Bloomberg reported
Generally, the way exclusion of women plays out at work is more subtle than in Foster's case, where he explicitly attributed his decision to the practice, said Kim Elsesser, whose research at UCLA and the book she wrote, “Sex and the Office: Women, Men, and the Sex Partition That's Dividing the Workplace,” focused on gender issues in the workplace.
"If women don't have access to those same leaders they're not going to have the same opportunities at work,” Elsesser said. “It is sexism — it is discrimination if you allow access to someone because of their gender or deny access to someone because of their gender.”
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