She’s one of the country’s most respected journalists. Yet throughout her career Tracey Spicer has, unfortunately, not been immune to workplace sexism nor has she remained silent about it.
Speaking with the Australian Women’s Weekly as she prepares to release her “femoir”, the 49-year-old shared one “sickening” incident which has stuck with her decades later.
While she was a well-known television broadcaster, Spicer recalled being sexually harassed at a work Christmas party by one of her seniors.
“He groped around for a second or two and said, ‘Looking good, Trace. Lost a bit of weight, eh?’,” she told the magazine.
“I want two inches off your hair and two inches off your arse!” he would command, while also telling the presenters to “stick your tits out more”, she said.
Spicer credits the nurturing camaraderie of other women in the organisation, who formed a “protective pack” around her with pulling her through the stressful period.
Her book Good Girl Stripped Bare, which borrows its title from her popular TED talk slamming the “bullsh*t” beauty standards of the media industry, is due out this week.
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Ugh, how vile. There are some days I am so glad that my career doesn't have any reliance on my appearance beyond "neat and tidy" - stories like this make my blood boil! I hope they are becoming fewer and farther between in our modern world.