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Trader exposes sexist horrors of the Wall Street ‘frat house’
When Maureen Sherry resigned from Bear Stearns after 10 years, she was given a going-away party, a sizable check — and a nondisclosure agreement. “The legal department gave me this document to sign,” she says, and the money was a bribe: Don’t ever talk about the things you’ve seen here, or the way you were harassed, dehumanized, humiliated. Sherry refused to sign and declined the check. “Me taking money,” she says, “wouldn’t help anyone coming up after me.” Her forthcoming novel, “Opening Belle” (Simon & Schuster), a thinly fictionalized account of her 11 years on Wall Street, is the ... (full story)
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