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 The Women’s Equality Party co-founder filed her lawsuit in July Leo Cackett.
Journalist and Women’s Equality Party founder Catherine Mayer is suing her former employer Time magazine for gender and age discrimination. The lawsuit comes after the publication of BBC salaries sparked international outrage over gender and race pay gaps at the public broadcaster. Ms Mayer, who was fired from her position as an editor at the US publication, says Time violated anti-discrimination and civil rights laws through “a system of male cronyism by which men, especially former war correspondents were favoured over women in recruitment, dismissal and promotion decisions,” The Guardian reported.The lawsuit was filed on 24 July after a private settlement could not be reached, Ms Mayer said.
in my opinion i find that the media are still being unequal with female as gender and can be seen by this article; therefore are being sexist towards females charters and have lead them to be seen as weak within the media. 

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