What a revelation.

Just as one high profile lady declares the City a sex discrimination-free zone; the Guardian reports that banking and prostitution go hand in hand. This might be a little at odds with the idea that its all equality and harmony in the City, judge for yourself…

Kat Banyard of gender-equality pressure group the Fawcett Society told a Treasury select committee hearing into women’s role in the City of London that there was a growing trend in the City to use prostitution to entertain clients.

“We took extensive evidence from individual women who said it was becoming frequent for meetings to be held in lap dance clubs, and I also had women speak to me and say that prostitution was being used in client deals or in ways to generate business – and that all of this culture created a very hostile environment, as you would expect, for female employees of those firms,” she said.

One former City worker who gave evidence to the Fawcett Society said that while working for a top international investment bank in the City, she witnessed a senior manager looking for a brothel to entertain some Russian clients.

Is that what he told her. Blaming it on the Russians. Tut tut.