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Article: Gender, work, and Wall Street; Analysts expect the Morgan Stanley case to influence trading-firm culture.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- July 14, 2004
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Byline: Ron Scherer and Alexandra MacRae Staff writer and contributor
NEW YORK -- A certain female executive has been complimented for her hard work, but occasionally she loses her temper. As her executive coach tells it, the employer, a financial service company, told her she would not be promoted because of the outbursts.
"She looks around her and sees men losing their tempers all the time," says the coach, Lisa Parker of the Strickland Group. "She wants to know why the rules are different for men."
Different rules, "men-only golf outings," subjective pay and promotion standards - these are just a few of the challenges women cite on Wall ...