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Read Sarah Butcher’s article on eFinancialCareers today. The timing is striking, given the woman who went viral on LinkedIn yesterday after saying she was suing one of the largest VC funds in the world for pay discrimination and…
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Saw this on eFinancialCareers. I’m a tall white Millennial who’s benefited from the system, and even I can see how bad the double standards are for women in finance. It’s embarrassing the industry enables it. Adding my support.…
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My daughter forwarded me the article about this site from efinancialcareers.com. I just wanted to drop a note providing my support for what these courageous women are doing. She has spoken for years about the double standard of…
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I was recruited to Citi in early 2023. At my first company mixer, during a conversation with three female Managing Directors, they openly discussed HR’s flagrant hostility toward women. Spent the next two years networking my way back…
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For years, I spent my time updating strategy—working to align with each new corporate mantra, asking to be integrated into the organization with every restructuring. It was clear that much thought had gone into what the “new” organization…
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I was laid off by Citi in January, 2024. I was 69 at the time and had a combined 45 years of tenure dating back to Shearson. I had recently chosen to leave a Regional Director position managing…
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I noticed the submission describing HR pressure on managers to terminate employees in ways that avoided paying severance. I believe a major publication investigated this practice at Citi and ultimately did not run the story because of *obvious*…
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Here’s a legendary Citi story: A male MD known for bullying called a female peer an expletive in a team meeting. A complaint was filed; it was investigated and confirmed to be true. But the complainant was told…
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At one point I was discussing with my line manager and HR to upgrade a role under me by hiring someone externally to replace an internal veteran. Given the long tenured contributions by the internal veteran, I want…
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A female employee of Hispanic background with a near-20-year tenure with Citi raised her discontent to me on the first day we met. Nothing new unfortunately – three line managers in 10 months of just one year, unclear…