They entered Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Lazard or Bank of America like pushing a heavy armored door. For some, at a time when women were simply not expected in these high-flying financial temples. And for the youngest, in an ultra-selective world where you have to break through tens of thousands of applicants to get a simple internship. Investment banker… The formula frightens the imagination as it is synonymous with endless days, excess of all kinds and six-figure bonuses. Stubborn clichés - the women who agreed to speak to us, anonymously or not, did not deny them. Ambitious, ultra-hardworking, they say above all that they were electrified by the requirement, the competitiveness and the extreme rigor demanded by this extraordinary profession,a priori hardly compatible with a family life.
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