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In my 20s, while working on a sales team at Morgan Stanley, I experienced repeated sexual harassment that became normalized. A well-known external wholesaler made unwanted advances toward me for months. At a firm-hosted event, he forcefully pulled me into a room, kissed and touched me until I pushed him off and left. The next…

Dear Story 273,You make excellent points about the churn in Citi’s Enterprise Data office. The dysfunction there runs long and deep. The firm was sued by a senior hire brought in from JPMorgan in 2021 to run governance for the program—I knew her, and she was both capable and effective. According to her lawsuit, she…

The Head of Wealth at Citi—somewhat ironically given his reputation also the head of the women’s network—hosted a Women’s Day event with Martina Navratilova. It’s a visible gesture, but my day-to-day reality remains walking into meetings with 30+ men and being the only woman in the room who is drowned out on the daily. It…

I am a female C16 employee at Citi. I submitted formal ethics complaints regarding two male managers for conduct I believe constituted serious gender bias and discrimination. I was recently informed by HR that both individuals were cleared without qualification. I am unable to describe the full extent of the discriminatory behavior, as doing so…

Despite significant media interest, there have been suggestions—unsurprisingly—from the institution involved that this site should not be covered by the press, on the grounds that it represents individuals “leveraging the media” to make a statement. That framing is worth addressing directly. The right to speak publicly about one’s lived experience is a core First Amendment…

To Story 266. You raise meritocracy as the standard. Agreed entirely. So let us apply it. For the first five years of Fraser’s tenure, the vast majority of her direct reports have been men. On your logic, one of two conclusions follows: either Citi employs the most talented concentration of male leadership in the history…