Globe Life hit with EEOC finding it "created, condoned" a work environment that is abusive to women

• Federal agency finds Globe Life tolerated nonconsensual touch, unwelcome genital exposure, sexual quid-pro-quos at top agency.
• EEOC says agents at the Globe Life agency were employees, not contractors.
• Former agent says it was "brutal" fighting Globe after reporting sexual misconduct.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has found that Globe Life tolerated a "pervasive pattern of harassing conduct" against women at one of its top-producing sales agencies.

Many of the sexual harassers were so high up in the company that "they constitute alter egos or proxies" of Globe Life and one of its major divisions, American Income Life, the federal commission wrote.