Six female employees have filed a bias suit against their employer, investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein Service, claiming that they were denied opportunities and financial rewards - and that their male colleagues created a "boys' club" environment including hookers at lunch and rude behavior. Proving that you can't make this up, the suit includes allegations that one woman was called the "Pamela Anderson of sales/trading" by her boss. (We imagine her boss is trying to backpedal now, saying it was meant to be a sincere compliment!) And another woman was pressured to leave a team celebration dinner because the guys wanted to go a strip club. This is so 1980s! In addition to being sidelined when coming back from maternity leave, there's scandalous mention of a former chief executive's affair with an assistant turn into the assistant having their love child.
DrKW says they will fight the lawsuit. The DrKW website uses a photograph of a woman wearing a tie, which seems very 80s to Gothamist. And Morgan Stanely was the target of a sex discdrimination lawsuit in 2001; they settled in 2004. Recently, Morgan Stanley fired four employees who visited a strip club with a client.
