I am a woman working in management consulting and previously worked in front office at CIBC. An MD and ED on our team pressured juniors to accompany them to strip clubs. I felt uncomfortable and shared my thoughts with peers but it fell on deaf ears. It was widely perceived that those who complied received preferential treatment in files and bonuses.
The Director Who Doesn’t Know What He Doesn’t Know There is a particular kind of incompetence that announces itself through enthusiasm directed at the wrong audience. A Director came to share his excitement. He had been given exposure — access to senior leadership. Risk scenarios for the CCAR process were being presented for approval. Senior…
I left the industry in the mid 2010s to start a marketing agency, having concluded that even the “good guys” are prejudiced against women. I was working at a Big 5 bank for a woman (let’s call her ‘S’) who may have been the hardest working person to walk the earth. She was married; her…
We want to address a theme that women have had to tolerate since the beginning of time: the tendency to assign blame to women for situations involving work, relationships, or professional power dynamics. WallStreetDiscriminates does not publish stories in order to litigate individual encounters in the court of public opinion. We publish stories to identify…
Saw this on Instagram and thought it was a great reminder to the incredible, resilient women who have contributed to this platform about why it’s important to keep going. Happy Mother’s Day weekend to all who celebrate! “Dostoevsky was 28 when they stood him in front of a firing squad. Blindfolded. Hands tied. He could…
You folk are doing a GREAT job. But this is a malice irrespective of firm or location. So why limit it to just one firm? A few insightful commentators have highlighted the “culture transition” across multiple firms, which is a cause for worry. This shouldn’t and cannot be an isolated issue affecting personnel from one…
I was a Business Analyst at Citi in 2023 when a new senior leader arrived with a great deal of fanfare. Almost immediately, I noticed that he paid an unusual amount of attention to several of the younger female analysts. One in particular stood out—a tall woman with honey-blonde hair and Eastern European accent. The…