Authored by Heather Furnas and originally published in Ms. Magazine on May 7, 2023.
Goldman Sachs will be headed to court next month to battle a class of 1,800 current and former female employees who assert they received lower pay and weaker performance reviews as a result of pervasive gender discrimination, stifling career growth.
The Goldman case stretches back to actions the company took in 2002 and 2004, and it’s tempting to believe that whatever gender bias sins the investment bank allegedly committed over a decade ago would never happen now.
But in another male-dominated field—surgery—recent data show that women continue to be undervalued in the workplace...