“Bully Market.”
Last September (2022) former Goldman Sachs managing director Jamie Fiore Higgins released a memoir with a blood red cover titled, “Bully Market,” alleging the investment bank’s Manhattan headquarters “was so rife with misogyny that a colleague kept a spreadsheet ranking female recruits on their ‘f–kability,’ declaring: ‘I want tit size and – a shape’”1 (The New York Post, September 20, 2022).
A male colleague informed her the only reason she’d been promoted was “because of her vagina” and that the men made “moo” sounds when she passed, mocking her weight after she’d given birth to her fourth child.
On another occasion, Higgins described being violently pinned to a wall, suspended in air by a male colleague who forced her jaw shut with his hand and screamed: “Who the f—k do you think you are?”
High-Stakes Quid Pro Quo.
In a lavish Madison Avenue penthouse, George Soros’ (Soros Fund) right-hand man Howard Rubin, now 67, kept a secret “sex dungeon” with blow-up photographs of Playboy models and BDSM paraphernalia that would baffle Christian Grey.
Here he committed violent acts, battery, and sexual assault, against a number of women including actual Playboy playmates. Some were paid $6,800 per session, but Rubin went overboard. The six (out of seven) victims who sued him in a civil lawsuit and won $3.85 million didn’t intend on being maimed or raped.
Rubin beat one plaintiff’s breasts so severely her plastic surgeon declined to operate, reported The New York Post’s Michael Kaplan2. Another victim said she was bound and vulnerable when Rubin told her: “I’m going to rape you like I rape my daughter.” Kaplan also reported that Rubin has an estranged wife and children, including at least one daughter.
Sex, Lies and Very Dangerous Secrets.
A Case for Women has launched a massive national advocacy campaign – “#ICOULDNTSAYNO” – that intends to tread on sexual power politics and end misogyny in the most concentrated cradles of industry. Power imbalances have persisted for so long because unspoken permission has been given to men in virtually every professional field. Wall Street happens to be the most barbaric.
No one wants to be “that girl who tells,” a 34-year-old Wall Street risk manager told us, because there may be earning power involved, but mostly it’s the fear of “insanely brutal consequences. There are really so few women in our business.”
