679 Women at the IMF Protest New York

**Zuberi** · 26th-May-2011

679 Women at the IMF Protest New York
By John Hudson
679 Women at the IMF Protest New York Times Coverage - Business - The Atlantic Wire

On Friday, The New York Times published a scathing report titled "At I.M.F., Men on Prowl and Women on Guard," depicting the International Monetary Fund as hostile to women and "ruled by alpha male economists." The article said some women avoid wearing skirts in fear of drawing attention and that "sexual norms" left women "vulnerable to harassment."

Now, a group of 679 women at the IMF have signed and sent a letter to the Times saying the newspaper grossly misrepresented the organization, according to an IMF spokesman. "We--a group of women at the IMF ranging from administrative assistants to department heads--do not recognize the picture of the IMF painted in your article," reads the letter. "We feel insulted by your description of our workplace." The letter accuses the Times of cherry-picking a small number of incidents at the organization, which has a total staff of 2,421 employees, to make the entire institution look bad. The letter continues:

More proof that the media and political correctness is all about lying to people.

**Kargan3033** · 26th-May-2011

Yep that's why I usualy don't watch tv and when I do watch the news I take everything I see on the news with a few trillion metric tons of salt.

**Celtic Druid** · 26th-May-2011

This is yet another example of hysteria fuelled by ideologues, whose shoddy journalism doesn't tally with the reality. I'm not surprised such a grossly misleading story has emanated from a notoriously pro-feminist rag like the NY Times.

The response by these 679 women in dispelling this story is commendable, and is something that should be repeated again by fair-minded women whenever feminists seek to misrepresent the working/living conditions of them for political gain.

**Marx** · 26th-May-2011

Didn't we see a near-identical situation a week or two back by a TV company where the media blasted it as some sort of male-dominated frenzy where no woman was safe, and the staff wrote a collective letter of complaint... was it to Jezebel - the manhating site? I think it was...

**Nynrah Ghost** · 26th-May-2011

Quote from Marx

Didn't we see a near-identical situation a week or two back by a TV company where the media blasted it as some sort of male-dominated frenzy where no woman was safe, and the staff wrote a collective letter of complaint... was it to Jezebel - the manhating site? I think it was...

Correct geuss. That would be Jezebel slandering The Daily Show.