Andrew Cuomo Is the Sexist Boss Too Many of Us Have Dealt With

“You gotta wear heels when he’s in Albany sweetie, that’s the rule,” Ana Liss, a former aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, says a senior staff member instructed her, according to Gothamist/WNYC. “He,” of course, referred to the governor of New York. Cuomo has recently been accused of many gross and sexist violations of the basic human rights of women who worked for him, including sexual harassment and assault. These charges are under investigation. But what’s striking in these accounts, from many sources, is the portrait of the retrograde office culture over which Cuomo presides, one in which the boss exercised enormous control over women workers’ bodies, setting an expectation that they wear sexy clothes, including high heels, in Liss’s case, stilettos (ouch), just because he liked it.