Back in an era that some Wall Street guys consider the good old days, men got the promotions, women got left out of important meetings and anyone dumb enough to complain met with a blitz of retaliation.
Ultimately, legal actions including the embarrassing 1996 “Boom-Boom Room” lawsuit against Smith Barney & Co. got Wall Street’s attention. Some firms apologized, sort of, using that “We didn’t do anything wrong but we sure are sorry if you think we did” ploy that financial firms pull off like no others.
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