Daily Diary

Breast in show

Posted 27/04/2007 by The Daily Diary

Despite the best efforts of City HR teams to train up old-fashioned male partners into something resembling open-minded human beings, you don’t have to have been patted on your behind and called ‘toots’ by the senior partner to know sexism is still rife in the Square Mile.

News is currently sweeping like wildfire through one mid-market London firm of some rather, er, indiscreet remarks made by a partner at a client meeting in front of a number of associates.

The grateful client praised one absent (female) associate for her outstanding work, saying that she had been doing “a very good job”.

“She’s not one of our brightest,” chimed the partner, as colleagues’ jaws collectively hit the carpet with a thud, “but she’s got great tits.”

Needless to say, the story took approximately 30 seconds to sweep the entire firm, much to the embarrassment of the curvy fee earner herself. Whether the partner is himself still considered “one of our brightest” by colleagues is open to debate.