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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…

I was recruited to Citi from Morgan Stanley in 2022 in a senior compliance role. I wasn’t unhappy at MS but Citi offered a substantial pay increase. To say it’s like being in the Upside Down is an understatement. Risk is constantly downplayed; misrepresenting facts to regulators is commonplace; and anytime an “outsider” (which is…

I was terminated for speaking up about sexual harassment in Asia. I just completed my interview with one of the big global MNC banks, and the questions I was asked by the talent acquisition manager, a woman, even after I disclosed the reason for my departure from my last organisation, were appalling and deeply unsettling….

I worked at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong for almost a decade. For most of that time, my performance and commitment were never in question. That changed the moment I announced my pregnancy. From that point on, I noticed a clear shift in how I was treated. When I returned from maternity leave, a junior…

As the chair of a fintech board, I want to respond to stories 227 and 228. BoD’s have a clear legal responsibility to set the tone at the top; oversee ethics, conduct, and culture; and address executive misconduct or systemic issues when they arise. The suggestion that, in both cases, conduct about an executive is…

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…