About Amy Buttell Crane

Gender Discrimination in the Securities Industry

If the securities industry hoped 2006 would bring the last of a decade-long era of sex bias and civil rights suits, that hope died in early January when Oppenheimer & Co. and Dresdner, Kleinwort, Wasserstein Services became the most recent defendants in a series of suits pitting women against financial-services firms. These cases focus on equity in promotion and financial compensation as well as more overt discrimination, such as hostile work environments. Oppenheimer and Dresdner join …