Female former New York trader says male co-workers MOOED at her when she was lactating and drank the breast milk she’d stored in the office fridge

Maureen Sherry

A female former trader has lifted the lid on Wall St sexism and revealed how male colleagues mooed at her when she was lactating – and once drank her breast milk.

Maureen Sherry claims that the few women at Bear Stearns were sat together on what was disparagingly called ‘Estrogen Row’ by the men.


They were mocked as ‘fertile lassies’ and one man even knocked back a shot of breast milk she had stored in the office fridge.

Miss Sherry, 51, claimed that the sexism was so bad that in interviews women were asked if they were married and if they planned to marry.

Some were supposedly made to promise never to have children.

Miss Sherry made the revelations in her forthcoming novel Opening Belle, a thinly fictionalized account of her 11 years as a managing director at now defunct investment bank Bear Stearns in the 90s and 00s.

The book is due to be made into a film starring Reese Witherspoon that will come out later this year.

Miss Sherry, a mother-of-four who attended Cornell University and the Wharton School of Business, writes that on her first day on Wall St she opened up a pizza box to find condoms instead of pepperoni slices put there as a prank.

Men openly debated hiring women based on their looks and one young woman noticed that her interviewer – a man – had drawn her breasts at the top her CV.

In the trading room there was an area called ‘The Dais of the D****’ where the high earning men sat.

They would order women to come over with a microphone before subjecting them to Game of Thrones style humiliations, the book says.

Miss Sherry writes that at one point when she was walking to the company nurse’s office with a breast pump, some men made mooing noises at her.

Source: Daily Mail