After she was asked an illegal interview question, this reporter's rousing defense of working moms is ON FIRE

Three cheers for this perfect response to workplace sexism.

“Do you plan on getting knocked up immediately like the rest of them?”

Believe it or not, that's a real question that Lindsay McCormick, a former reporter for the NFL Network, says she was asked by a male hiring manager when interviewing for a job three years ago.

Though she isn't sharing just who asked her the discriminatory question, she did take to Instagram to thank the NFL Network for “removing him from his position this week.” The network suspended three analysts this week—Marshall Faulk, Ike Taylor and Heath Evans—pending an investigation on sexual misconduct allegations. Others at the network were also pulled from appearing on air.

Though she doesn’t have kids herself, McCormick gave a damn fine defense of working moms in her statement:

“I’ve been quiet about this for too long,” she begins. “In my last interview with NFL Network a few years ago, the head of hiring talent said to me, ‘If we hire you, do you plan on getting knocked up immediately like the rest of them?’ ‘Them’ as in badass working women who deserve to have a family life as well? ‘Them’ as the women who work their tails off to be taken seriously in a man’s world?”

“Because while I don’t plan on ‘getting knocked up,’ I do plan on being like the rest of those brilliant women that our daughters will one day look up to and see you can have it all.”

Drop the mic, Lindsay.

Because in case it needs repeating, it is illegal to ask an applicant if she has kids, or plans to have kids. (Here’s how to respond if you’re asked the question in an interview.) And it’s just plain ignorant to imply that all women plan to make babies and then peace out from their careers. Otherwise, yours truly, Working Mother, wouldn’t exist.

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The NFL Network now joins one of many organizations that has weathered sexual harassment scandals since the #MeToo movement forced the issue into the spotlight—and McCormick’s story goes to show just how damaging a culture that tolerates sexual harassment can be for women.

Though McCormick doesn’t say she was harassed herself, she was asked an illegal, discriminatory and offensive question in a job interview—one that shows her boss had pretty backwards views about women. That he also felt comfortable harassing women in the workplace shouldn’t come as a surprise, but it is further confirmation that men who sexually demean women don’t hold very positive views about us. And they should be removed from power, pronto.

Thank goodness they finally are.

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