Former anchor Sonya Heitshusen, 54, was let go from WHO-TV in Des Moines, Iowa, after 17 years and she alleges the reasons were her age and gender.
A female former television anchor for WHO-TV in Des Moines, Iowa, filed an age and gender discrimination lawsuit Tuesday against the station's parent company, Nexstar Media Group Inc., alleging men were treated better by management, the Associated Press reported.affiliate WHO-TV last summer after 17 years of appearing on camera and was the oldest female anchor in the station's history.
Nexstar has maintained that Heitshusen's firing was a matter of reducing its staff. The seasoned reporter said she was told the company might find her a lower-paying digital job but nothing on television. A year after she was let go, she is turning those skills on her former employer with the lawsuit challenging what she calls a widespread practice of removing older, female staffers from the air because of their looks.She said she was bringing the lawsuit to help spur a"cultural shift" in the industry that makes discrimination no longer acceptable.Nexstar's company statistics show that nearly 80 percent of its managers last year were men.
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