This protest comes about a month after Nike was hit with a damning op-ed by running prodigy Mary Cain that highlighted the obstacles female athletes have faced while training with Salazar, the coach of Nike's now-shuttered Oregon Project.
Hundreds of Nike employees marched in protest of the company's treatment of women at its headquarters Monday, according to local and national reports.
A giant sculpture reads "Do the right thing," at the Nike headquarters on March 22, 2018 in Beaverton, Oregon.employees protested the sportswear company's treatment of women on Monday, the same day Nike reopened a building at its headquarters named after disgraced running coach Alberto Salazar, according to several news reports.
When she arrived at Nike for training, Cain said the all-male staff, including Salazar, told her she needed to be "thinner and thinner and thinner" if she wanted to improve as a runner. She also said she was "emotionally and physically abused by a system designed by Alberto [Salazar] and endorsed by Nike."
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