According to the Financial Times, a former Goldman Sachs employee said male colleagues made cow noises at her and mimicked squeezing her breasts when she went to use a lactation room.
In the Financial Times, there is a story about the book " Bully Market", which is a memoir about her time at Goldman.
She says she faced discrimination when she was a managing director.
One of the bank's bosses allegedly told her she wouldn't be able to reach the managing director if she was pumping milk. She stopped using the company's lactation center because of this comment.
After having another baby, she decided to use the lactation area again but male colleagues made "moo" noises at her and pretended to squeeze her breasts as she went to the room, according to the FT. She said colleagues put a toy cow on her desk when she returned from the lactation center.
An allegation that a male colleague avoided punishment after shouting racial slurs at a bar worker during a work night out is one of the many claims made in "Bully Market."
The author's note in the book says the dialogue isn't repeated word for word, some names were changed, and some Goldman staff were "composite characters."
In an interview with the Financial Times, she said that she had received more than 100 messages from women in banking, law, and medicine who said they had experienced similar things in their workplace but had remained quiet because of nondisclosure agreements.
She said that the culture at Goldman might have changed since she was there.
Insider didn't get a response from the two companies about the allegations. The company culture was described in the Financial Times.
Goldman Sachs told the Financial Times that they would have investigated the allegations thoroughly and addressed them seriously if Ms. Higgins had brought them to their attention.
There is a zero tolerance policy for discrimination against employees.
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