Katie Couric co-anchored NBC’s Today for 15 years, from 1991 to 2006; her first six years, from 1991 to 1997, were alongside fellow co-anchor Bryant Gumbel, who had been at the program since 1982. Early in her tenure on Today, Couric went on maternity leave in 1991 after giving birth to daughter Ellie that July, and Couric told Bill Maher on his “Club Random” podcast that she was met with an “incredibly sexist attitude” from Gumbel.
