London, May 12 (ANI): A part-time stripper, who was fired from her full-time job of covering Texas high society, has filed gender discrimination complaint against her former employer.
Sarah Tressler was working as a society and general reporter for the Houston Chronicle and was writing an anonymous blog titled 'Diary of an Angry Stripper' when the weekly Houston Press reported her part-time profession in an article titled 'Society Writer by Day, Stripper by Night.'
The 30-year-old said that after the story came out earlier this year, she was fired by the Chronicle "because of a claim that I did not disclose on my employment application that I worked as an exotic dancer."
"There was no question on the form that covered my dancing," the Telegraph quoted Tressler's statement issued on Thursday.
"I answered the questions on the form honestly," the statement said.
Tressler's attorney, Los Angeles celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred, said that her work as a "dancer" should not affect her ability to be an effective reporter for a major newspaper.
Allred claims that Tressler's firing was clearly "sexually discriminatory."
"Most exotic dancers are female, and therefore to terminate an employee because they had previously been an exotic dancer would have an adverse impact on women, since it is a female dominated occupation," Allred said in a statement.
Allred said that since Tressler was dancing at clubs as an independent contractor, not an employee, so she would not have had a reason to list dancing as prior employment on her job application.
In her blog, Tressler, who refers to herself as "Sarah," discusses things like the odd and disgusting behaviour of strip club customers, "stripper terms" and other subjects.
"I had demonstrated that I was able to do my job as a reporter very well and I would have been happy to continue to do it had I not been terminated," Tressler added.
She insists that she would continue her work in journalism. (ANI)
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