A Wells Fargo & Co. bond saleswoman sued the bank for sex discrimination, claiming she was denied the same promotions and pay as men and forced to endure a “boys’ club” environment.
Michal Leavitt, a onetime Bear Stearns managing director, filed a lawsuit Friday in Chicago. She says she was forced to join Wells Fargo’s financial institutions group as a vice president, was paid up to 50% less than her male colleagues and was never assigned large accounts by a “disproportionately male management.”
“The financial institutions group is a self-acknowledged ‘boys’ club,’ where ‘locker room