Shocking exposé reveals trader received 'moos' while breastfeeding

A former New York trader has lifted the lid on sexism in her sector, claiming that her male co-workers made animal noises at her in the office.

Maureen Sherry explains that the few women who worked for New York-based global investment bank Bear Stearns all sat together in an area nicknamed “Oestrogen Row” by her male co-workers. Sherry went on to claim that the male workers “mooed” at her when she was lactating, with one colleague even drinking some of her breast milk that she stored in the office fridge.

Sherry documented her ordeals in the novel Opening Belle, an account of her 11 years as Managing Director of Bear Stearns.

According to the MailOnline, Sherry, who attended Cornell University and the Wharton School of Business, claims that on her first day on Wall Street she opened up a pizza box to find that it had been filled with condoms. She also writes that men debated hiring women based on their looks and that in the trading room there was a space called the “Dias of the Dicks” where all of the top-earning men sat.