15 women accuse Washington’s NFL team of rampant sexual harassment in front office: report

“I have never been in a more hostile, manipulative, passive-aggressive environment … and I worked in politics.”

That’s Julia Payne, a former vice president of communications with Washington, D.C.’s, NFL team, quoted in a Washington Post report late Thursday describing a “nightmare” workplace for women amid a team culture of misogyny and rampant sexual harassment.

Fifteen women told the Post they were harassed while working in the NFL team’s front office between 2006 and 2019, 14 of whom requested anonymity because they were fearful of legal reprisals from the team....