Citigroup sees the days of traders slamming phones coming to an end

Citigroup has been working to boost the share of women from assistant vice president up through the managing director level to bolster its efforts to close the pay gap between male and female employee

The days of traders slamming phones and breaking computers are becoming a thing of the past.

Such behavior was a frequent sight when Citigroup Inc.’s Deirdre Dunn got her start on Wall Street two decades ago. One colleague even kept a mini baseball bat in his desk to hammer his phone back together. Now, with banks desperate to attract diverse candidates to their hallowed trading floors, there’s far less tolerance for that kind of hard-charging attitude, she said.

“If I look at trading when I started, I would say a phone or occasionally a computer got broken at least once a week,