Former Goldman Sachs vice president Charlotte Hanna has filed a lawsuit against the financial giant, claiming she suffered discrimination and then termination for bearing children. Following the birth of her first child in 2005, Hanna returned to work part-time. But after taking a maternity leave in 2009, she was told her position had been eliminated. "It is clear that Goldman Sachs views working mothers as second-class citizens," says the complaint, "who should be at home with their children." Does Goldman Sachs treat mothers unfairly?
Hanna should have known better: "Everyone knows that when you pledge your allegiance to Goldman Sachs, they own you," says Yael Bizouati in Mediaelites. After "the 36-interview process," employees "simply belong to them — body and soul." So the fact that they "got a bit annoyed when one of their own got pregnant" is "not surprising." What is surprising, however, is that Hanna didn't already know all this.
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