The Meriton Group confirmed that Michael Nolan was no longer employed by the company, after he labelled Ford a "slut" when she spoke out publicly against misogyny and online harassment.

Ford, a weekly columnist for Daily Life, made a number of posts on her Facebook page on White Ribbon Day, which aims to prevent men's violence against women, in which she highlighted recent examples of online harassment she had received.

Ford included screenshots of a number of abusive messages that had been sent to her, including images Ford said were a "little violent in theme", and included unsolicited images of male genitalia. In one post, a man had suggested that Ford would "jibber less with a cock in [her] mouth".

In the comments on that post, Mr Nolan had responded on November 25 with the word: "Slut".

On his Facebook profile, Mr Nolan listed that he was a supervisor at Meriton Apartments, prompting Ford to tag the Meriton Group on Facebook and query whether they were aware that one of their employees was making such degrading comments.

She also took screenshots of a number of Mr Nolan's public Facebook posts, including racist and offensive jokes.

In a statement sent to Ford, Meriton Group said: "Meriton Group have now investigated the matter relating to the complaint made about Michael Nolan using inappropriate language on Facebook.

"Meriton Group does not condone this type of behaviour. Michael Nolan was removed from the Meriton site on Saturday 28th November pending an investigation, and as of 2:30pm today 30th November 2015, he no longer works for the Meriton Group."

Fairfax Media has contacted the Meriton Group and Mr Nolan for comment.

Ford originally said she highlighted Mr Nolan's comment because "these men don't get to just go around leaving these kinds of comments and attempting to degrade women just for the hell of it. Why should they get away with it? Why should there be no consequences at all for them?"

"There are basically no consequences for men who behave like this, so we have to start making consequences for them," she wrote.

After receiving a message from the Meriton Group confirming that Mr Nolan was no longer working for the company, Ford applauded the company's actions.

"Perhaps Michael will think twice next time before using his social media account to call a woman 'slut' when she speaks out against online misogyny. These men have rarely ever faced consequences for their actions, but that's starting to change," she said.

"To anyone who suggests I have caused a man to lose his job, I'd like to say this: No. He is responsible for his actions. He is responsible for the things he writes and the attitudes he holds."

A Facebook page, Support for Michael Nolan, has been created after it was revealed Mr Nolan had lost his job.

"This page was created in support of Michael Nolan who was fired of his job after calling a strong independent woman a 'slut'," the page says.

Earlier this year, Ford was besieged with threats of rape and violence after she spoke out about breakfast program Sunrise's attitude toward victims of nude photo hackings.

Sunrise's Facebook page had asked when women would get the message not to take nude photos, prompting Ford to share a semi nude photo of herself with "Hey #Sunrise get f***ed" written across her chest.

She shared the online responses from men who threatened her with physical and sexual violence, but in a stunning sequence of events, she was banned from Facebook for violating community standards.