I am completely confused by this recent news, and don't know who to believe. The phrase "sleeping your way to the top" did not come out of thin air. Women, for centuries, have at times chosen to use sex to get ahead at work, at post-secondary institutions, and in the movie business. Interestingly, it was so common that women would try to sleep their way to good grades that post-secondary institutions had to implement policy preventing profs from dating students. Men, on the other hand, have also exploited women who were willing to use sex to get ahead.
I haven't followed closely, but as soon as I hear that women accepted meetings in a hotel room, I have to question why they would agree to that. Surely they know that hotel rooms are not exactly where professionals meet to do business.
What happened is not right, but early on someone posed the question: why wait twenty years? I also wonder: why take a financial payout to remain silent? Aren't these women part of the problem? Had they gone to police twenty years ago, so many victims would not be victims. Did that not matter? Was money and success more important? Is it now that they are successful that they are seeking vengeance, or do they suddenly, en masse, have a collective guilty conscience because they did not report the alleged assaults to police?
I don't really understand why something they settled with money so long ago is now a problem for them.