Sexism in IB

I had an interview with an MD at an AM firm who previously worked in IB out of university. She worked for GS and described the environment as 'abusive'.

I was pretty shocked to hear this, and while this was almost a decade ago, I wanted to know if anyone (male or female) has any stories of overt sexism in recent times. 

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Investment banks are among the most politically correct and woke firms in this world. A woman complaining about sexism is just a shit analyst.

 

Curious, how many women are in your intern class (if you've started)? Do you feel that they were hired to meet a quota or that they're qualified?

 

They're half of my intern class and most of them are incredibly unqualified for a very simple reason: the guys represent the top 1-5% of male applicants, whereas the women represent the top 20% of female applicants.

 

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