Editor fired for demanding equal pay, pension

Jill Abrahamson 

Jill Abrahamson, the executive editor of the New York who was fired yesterday, had been demanding that she be paid as much as her predecessor in the job.  “She confronted the top brass,” says a associate quoted by New Yorker Magazine and this may have fed into the management’s narrative that she was “pushy,” a characterization that, for many, has an inescapably gendered tone. Great fun to read about the travails of the privileged and famous. New Yorker Magazine