Leslie Moonves’s resignation as CBS chief executive is recorded as a departure that followed sexual-harassment claims. The book provides no further detail about the claims or the terms of his exit, so the event’s significance here lies in its place within a wider period of public scrutiny of workplace power and accountability.

The Recorded Departure

A September 9, 2018, report described Moonves as stepping down from his role as CBS chief executive after sexual-harassment claims. The account establishes the sequence and the change in office, but does not specify the claims, Moonves’s response, or any further consequences. The resignation is therefore a clearly dated event whose immediate circumstances remain only briefly documented in the book’s references.

A Wider Workplace Context

Elsewhere, the book argues that harassment takes different forms across industries: workplace drinking and managers’ reluctance to confront customers in restaurants, young men’s unchecked power in Silicon Valley, and physical danger used against women in traditionally male workplaces. It also observes that measures intended to address harassment can sometimes enable it. That discussion supplies a broader framework for understanding why departures following harassment claims mattered publicly, but it does not establish a direct connection between those specific workplace patterns and Moonves’s case.

Speaking Out and Unequal Risks

The book also records women describing the different costs and possibilities of speaking publicly. At a gathering, the contrast between a low-paid McDonald’s worker who had recently experienced homelessness and the comforts of Gwyneth Paltrow’s home made differences in economic circumstances visible. Zelda Perkins and Kim Lawson, from markedly different backgrounds, described turning their experiences into activism; Lawson spoke about filing a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and taking part in a strike. These accounts illuminate the broader environment in which workplace allegations became public, without identifying them as part of the events surrounding Moonves’s resignation.

Place in the Narrative

The resignation functions as a concise chronological entry in the book’s account of a larger reckoning. Its spare documentation sets it apart from the extended personal accounts and workplace investigations elsewhere in the narrative: the record names the office, the departure, and the claims that preceded it, but leaves the particulars unelaborated. The event marks public consequence while preserving an important distinction between what the book establishes and what it does not describe.