Story #84 – I resonate with your story so deeply. I’m truly sorry you’re still enduring this nightmare. You’re not alone in it, even if it feels that way every day.
This is the painful flip side we don’t talk about enough: when women in power mimic the worst traits of the boys’ club—ego, bullying, refusal to support others—to cling to their status. It doesn’t make the discrimination less real; it makes the betrayal cut deeper.
I saw Citi posted record earnings today. Good for them. Anyone, like me, who chooses to work at a bank is a capitalist so no judgment. That said, it’s fair to ask whether the firm might be even more successful if it reinvested just some of those profits into meaningfully improving its culture, rather than…
It feels liberating to finally say this out loud. Earlier in my career, I co authored a thought leadership piece with a male Managing Director. I was entry level at the time, only three years out of college. At a talk we gave on the topic, which I will not name, a male colleague approached…
To the person who posted in story 203, thank you for sharing your story. For years, having been in a similar situation, I felt it was my fault for allowing this abuse to happen. But I can see clearly now. This is how we’ve been manipulated to feel. Grooming does not start with the ask….
In CCAR-adjacent functions — processes subject to federal oversight and with direct implications for how a bank represents its financial stability to regulators — governance exists precisely because the stakes of getting it wrong extend beyond the institution to the broader financial system. What happens when Citi leadership in those functions does not understand the…
112: your story resonated deeply. What you’ve documented at Wells Fargo isn’t isolated—I witnessed the same repeating pattern at Citi in Tech & Data. A C15 role came open. There was a highly qualified female candidate with a proven track record. Instead, an Indian male had been pre-appointed. When the hiring MD was confronted privately,…
I wrote [Post 152] and want to clarify that I am not sharing the details of my story because I don’t want the people who broke me to get satisfaction in knowing they won.