The Houston Chronicle has a federal discrimination lawsuit against them for terminating a reporter who worked as a topless dancer. Former Houston Chronicle society reporter Sarah Tressler has reportedly filed a complaint against the newspaper.
With her well-known attorney, Gloria Allred, Tressler claimed that she was discriminated against because she’s a woman. According to Allred, Tressler’s claim has tremendous weight: “Most exotic dancers are female, so to terminate an employee because that employee had previously been an exotic dancer would have an inverse impact on women, since it’s a female-dominated occupation. Terminations like this would also discourage women from trying to improve their lives,” Allred said to media outlets.
Tressler, who worked as an exotic dancer at a club in Houston also wrote for the Houston Chronicle at the same time. She also penned her experiences as a dancer in a blog titled “Diary of an Angry Stripper”.
As of this week, the Chronicle said they hadn’t seen the complaint, so they could not offer comment.
Former Reporter Who Worked As Exotic Dancer Sues Newspaper; Hires Lawyer was originally published on news92fm.com
