A review by ash_thelibrarian_reads
Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs by Jamie Fiore Higgins

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5.0

I hate giving ratings to people’s personal accounts, but this is a great, palatable, non-fiction read!

If you are a woman, have a sister, a mom or a daughter (you get my point) you should read this just to get a small glimpse into what it is like to be a working mom and really just a working woman. This exposé on Goldman Sachs is really an exposé on how almost all businesses big and small treat their employees. In their eyes the workforce is expendable especially women and even more so POC. 

A few things that really resonated with me:
  • familial pressure is a huge problem (stop laying the burden of doing better than you did at the feet of your children)
  • women tearing other women down is as bad as men’s misogyny (just stop!)
  • Dunkin Donut math (Jamie busted out a DD metaphor to explain math and I am here for it!)
  • Shared trauma of 9/11 (a whole generation still suffers from PTSD, but that’s all I’ll say on it)
  • A few more: impostor syndrome is no joke! Wage disparity! Ugh! Working full time and breastfeeding is damn near impossible! 
  • I have so many more thoughts and could talk forever about this book especially pregnancy and pregnancy loss (I am 1 in 4), but there’s a character limit! 
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