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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Phillip Inman and Juliette Garside

Bank cut my bonus because I had a baby, says MP leading City sexism inquiry

Harriett Baldwin in a pink jacket standing in an office in Portcullis House in Westminster
Tory MP Harriett Baldwin, chair of the Treasury select committee on sexism in the City, has spoken of the discrimination she encountered while working in finance. Photograph: Andy Hall/The Observer

The MP leading a parliamentary inquiry into sexism in the City of London has spoken of the discrimination she faced when working in finance, saying her former employer, JP Morgan bank, refused to pay her full bonus after she returned from maternity leave.

In an exclusive interview with the Observer, Harriett Baldwin described her experience of bias on pay and inappropriate behaviour by senior managers, as the influential Treasury select committee that she chairs prepared to hear from hedge fund bosses in the next stage of its inquiry into gender barriers in financial services.

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