A former Nike runner says the company stopped paying her while she was pregnant and portrayed her as 'Miss America in a crop top'
Nike built sales off of Kara Goucher's story, she writes
In the book, Goucher said she flew in Nike private jets with Mark Parker, Nike's CEO at the time, twice, and got a private tour of the Great Wall of China with Parker and his wife after the 2008 Beijing Olympics. "I hadn't met a single woman at Nike in a leadership position," Goucher wrote."For a company that aggressively courted female consumers, they had few, if any, women making decisions about how their business was run."
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