The media is too hard on Hillary Clinton, most likely because Clinton is a woman, a former executive editor for the New York Times argued on Monday.

“We, for some reason, expect total purity from a woman candidate,” Jill Abramson said in a podcast for Politico. Abramson was fired from the Times in 2014 for what she said was “an issue with management in the newsroom.” Abramson caused waves prior to that with allegations that she was being paid less than her predecessor due to gender discrimination.