The suit claims that Ms. Falzone had approval from her supervisors to write the<br />column, which ran with the headline “Women Should Never Suffer in Silence.”<br />According to the lawsuit, her supervisor, Refet Kaplan, told her shortly after the piece ran<br />that executives at the network had barred her from appearing on the air on Fox News or its website, the suit says, adding that Ms. Falzone was not given a reason for the decision.<br />Ms. Falzone, who appeared regularly on Fox News and helped host several shows on the network‘s website, claimed in a suit filed Monday in the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan<br />that she had been barred from further appearances after writing an op-ed column for Fox News disclosing that she had endometriosis and was likely to be infertile.<br />Diana Falzone of Fox News Files Discrimination Lawsuit -<br />By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICHMAY 1, 2017<br />Fox News faced a fresh legal challenge on Monday after Diana Falzone, a reporter at the network, accused<br />it of discriminating against her on the basis of her gender and her fight against a chronic disease.<br />Indeed, those men saw their careers advance.”<br />Ms. Falzone’s claim is the latest of many the network has faced since its former chief, Roger Ailes,<br />was forced out last summer after being accused by at least six women of inappropriate behavior.
