As a 67yo woman who is relatively famous in our industry for being unconventional, this is a hard road to hoe. What’s different is that you don’t have to row it like I did: social media virality + first amendment protections make a lot of things possible that I’m not sure were options in my day. Wishing you luck.
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I started my career on Wall Street over 20 years ago, on the trading floor where all kinds of shenanigans would be reported. The guys who asked why you didn’t wear a skirt that day, the head trader who had to be reminded to look someone in the eyes when speaking, not at their chest,…
Re: Story 273 and 274. And we’ve now gone full circle. Of the 4 people that preceded the current Head of EDO, 3 were men and still employed at Citi. The one female was fired for allegedly refusing to lie to regulators. Oh f*ck … That looks a lot like retaliation doubled with discrimination in…
At one of the world’s largest technology companies in SV, my friend was invited to join what management called the “Innovation Circle,” a handpicked group of seven high-potential employees tasked with developing new products and strategic ideas. She was the only woman in the cohort. For nearly a year, she worked nights and weekends alongside…
Jane Fraser has described Citi’s consent order remediation as a punch list — the minimum remaining work to pass inspection. Her words, in public. Internally, the message filtering down through N-2 / N-3 is consistent: the firm is too fragmented to fix fundamentally. Do enough to close the consent order and move on. That’s not…
Discrimination, Protection Networks & Performance Failure An insular group of senior managing directors in Technology and Data systematically favors employees of shared national origin while discriminating against women, older workers, and those outside their network. Senior leaders have openly stated that people stay at Citi because the longer they remain, the less employable they become…
I am an ethnic minority female millennial whom worked in the Citi London office for 4 years at analyst level in the 2010s. After being in my original team for 1.5 years, I was asked if I would like to move into another team in the same department which was to support a new fast…