Fidelity Had ‘Locker Room’ Culture, Ex-Employee Says in Lawsuit

  • She alleges a male colleague lampooned her pregnancy
  • ‘Hostile work environment’ described in New Hampshire office
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A former Fidelity Investments employee claims she was taunted by two male colleagues who openly made offensive remarks about her pregnancy, race, women’s bodies and slavery.

Elizabeth Evans said that over a period of about two years she faced an “unrelenting hostile work environment” and “locker room”-style banter at the company’s campus in Merrimack, New Hampshire, according to a lawsuitBloomberg Terminal filed earlier this month. The Boston-based firm’s human resources department failed to intervene when she complained, the suit alleges.