{"id":3135,"date":"2009-05-18T13:13:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T12:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/26\/citigroup-accused-of-recessionary-sex-bias\/"},"modified":"2009-06-05T14:04:13","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T13:04:13","slug":"citigroup-accused-of-recessionary-sex-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2009\/05\/18\/citigroup-accused-of-recessionary-sex-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Citigroup accused of &#8216;recessionary&#8217; sex bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessmanagementdaily.com\/articles\/18423\/1\/Citigroup-accused-of-recessionary-sex-bias\/Page1.html\" title=\"090526_citigroup1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/090526_citigroup1.jpg\" title=\"090526_citigroup1.jpg\" alt=\"090526_citigroup1.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>In a textbook illustration of the perils of downsizing, a group of female executives has filed suit against beleaguered banking giant Citigroup, charging the bank\u2019s layoffs hit women executives harder than men. That, attorney Douglas Wigdor told Forbes.com, is \u201crecessionary discrimination.\u201d Wigdor filed suit with the EEOC on behalf of five female executives who claim Citigroup axed them while retaining less-qualified men. According to the suit, 45% of top executives laid off from the bank\u2019s public finance department were women, although the department was only 12% female. Image source: damsel.typepad.com &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessmanagementdaily.com\/articles\/18423\/1\/Citigroup-accused-of-recessionary-sex-bias\/Page1.html#\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publication: Covalence in the News <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: Global <\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\">| <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Company &#8211; EthicalQuote link<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><st1:stockticker><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/st1:stockticker><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=1\" target=\"_blank\"> Citigroup<\/a> <\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| <\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span>  Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessmanagementdaily.com\/articles\/18423\/1\/Citigroup-accused-of-recessionary-sex-bias\/Page1.html\" target=\"_blank\">businessmanagementdai<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessmanagementdaily.com\/articles\/18423\/1\/Citigroup-accused-of-recessionary-sex-bias\/Page1.html#\">ly.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a textbook illustration of the perils of downsizing, a group of female executives has filed suit against beleaguered banking giant Citigroup, charging the bank\u2019s layoffs hit women executives harder than men. That, attorney Douglas Wigdor told Forbes.com, is \u201crecessionary discrimination.\u201d Wigdor filed suit with the EEOC on behalf of five female executives who claim&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-3135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-citigroup","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}