{"id":2223668,"date":"2024-04-17T19:24:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T23:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/katie-couric-incredibly-sexist-bryant-gumbel-told-her-to-give-birth-in-a-field-and-come-back-to-work\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T19:26:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T23:26:44","slug":"katie-couric-incredibly-sexist-bryant-gumbel-told-her-to-give-birth-in-a-field-and-come-back-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/katie-couric-incredibly-sexist-bryant-gumbel-told-her-to-give-birth-in-a-field-and-come-back-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Couric criticized Bryant Gumbel as &#8220;incredibly sexist&#8221; for suggesting she give birth in a field and return to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkatie-couric-incredibly-sexist-bryant-gumbel-told-her-to-give-birth-in-a-field-and-come-back-to-work%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2223668&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Katie Couric called out\u2063 Bryant Gumbel for\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-reporter-resigns-amid-allegations-he-used-a-racial-slur-in-2019-ignore-context-and-intent\/\" title=\"New York Times Reporter Resigns Amid Allegations He Used A Racial Slur In 2019, Ignore Context And Intent\">sexist remarks<\/a>, revealing he advised her\u200c to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">give birth<\/a> in \u2063a field and return to\u2064 work immediately. She \u2062disclosed this during a recent appearance on Bill Maher&#8217;s \u200c&#8221;Club \u2062Random&#8221; podcast. Couric highlighted that Gumbel&#8217;s behavior\u2064 reflected the culture at \u2064NBC during that time. Katie Couric \u200bexposed Bryant Gumbel&#8217;s sexist remarks, sharing that he suggested \u2064she should\u2062 give birth in \u2063a \u2063field and\u200d promptly resume work. She disclosed this \u2064on Bill Maher&#8217;s &#8220;Club Random&#8221; podcast, pointing out that \u2064Gumbel&#8217;s conduct mirrored \u2064the NBC\u2062 culture of the era.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Veteran news anchor Katie Couric outed former colleague Bryant Gumbel as \u201cincredibly sexist,\u201d claiming that he suggested she should deliver her baby \u201cin a field\u201d and come <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-biden-is-responsible-for-skyrocketing-energy-costs\/\" title=\"GOP: Biden is responsible for skyrocketing energy costs\">straight back<\/a> to the show rather than taking some time off for maternity leave.<\/p>\n<p>Couric made the comments during her recent appearance on comedian Bill Maher\u2019s \u201cClub Random\u201d podcast, where she also said that Gumbel\u2019s attitude was similar to that of many of her male colleagues and the overall culture at NBC at the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Katie Couric on Club Random with Bill Maher revealed a couple of interesting facts about her time working on the &#8216;Today Show&#8217; with Bryant Gumbel and Matt Lauer:<br \/>Couric: &#8220;He [Gumbel] got mad at me because I was doing something on maternity leave, and he was giving endless shit for\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9KjrtZSbGY\">pic.twitter.com\/9KjrtZSbGY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricAbbenante\/status\/1779610209029062826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe was prickly, but, what a talent. He\u2019s such a seamless broadcaster, eloquent. I mean, when that countdown would happen \u2014 five, four, three, two, one \u2014 he would just hit it perfect,\u201d Couric said of Gumbel.<\/p>\n<p>And while she did have a number of nice things to say about him \u2014 she called him a \u201cnatty dresser\u201d and noted that he was intelligent and \u201creally talented\u201d \u2014 her overall assessment was that he was \u201ccomplicated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She went on to say that things kind of came to a head when she planned to take maternity leave when her first child was born.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he was giving me endless s*** for taking like a month or two off. I was having my first baby,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was like, \u2018Why don\u2019t you just drop it in the field and come back to work right away or something?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher, who is friends with Gumbel, pressed Couric on that point and said that it sounded like he probably meant that last remark as a joke \u2014 and while Couric conceded that he\u2019d been \u201ckidding,\u201d she said that wasn\u2019t the only thing he had said on the matter.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712932862202000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0plT8RRdMy9XUpIhocnjQS\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was goofing on me but giving me a lot of s***. But it was emblematic of sort of an incredibly sexist attitude,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very different environment,\u201d she said of NBC at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Maher noted that there was an \u201cold boys club\u201d feel to the interoffice politics at major networks at the time, adding, \u201cAnd women had to put up with more. They just did. I mean, you know, not to get all fuzzy and Lifetime Channel about it, but people like you and Barbara Walters or just like women comedians of a certain age, you have to really tip your hat to them because it was harder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an appearance on Bill Maher&#8217;s &#8220;Club Random,&#8221; veteran news anchor Katie Couric accused former colleague Bryant Gumbel of being &#8220;incredibly sexist.&#8221; She revealed that Gumbel advised her to give birth in a field and quickly return to work instead of taking maternity leave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2223669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2147750376.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2147750376.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}