Goldman Executive Dismissed 15-Year Veteran on Maternity Leave
- Dispute illustrates broader job worries around pregnancy bias
- Elite companies offer paid leave. Some women fear taking it
Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
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Two years ago, Tania Mirchandani, a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. vice president in Los Angeles, told her boss she was pregnant with her third child. He was skeptical she could balance a large family with her demanding job, she recalled. That’s “a lot of mouths to feed,” she quoted him as saying.
Mirchandani, a 15-year Goldman Sachs veteran, figured that her supervisor, of all people, would have understood her dilemma. John Mallory, then a Goldman partner and rising star overseeing wealth management for the West Coast, had four children of his own.