Story 88

While recruiting as a graduate student for an internship at a top-tier investment bank, a banker told during a recruiting event and in front of my peers “If you have sex with me, I will get you a job”

The comment was shocking, humiliating, and entirely normalized within the setting. That experience, nearly 20 years ago, was an early and unmistakable signal that success in Wall Street was not solely about merit or performance, but about navigating a system in which women are routinely objectified and placed at a structural disadvantage.

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