"Goldman Sachs views working mothers as second-class citizens"--so says the lawyer for Charlotte Hanna, who has filed suit against the gilded bank (NYSE: GS). She claims she was on the "mommy track" when she was treated poorly and, after she had two kids, was eventually fired.

According to the New York Daily News, Hanna joined Goldman Sachs in 1998 as an associate and was promoted two years later to vice president of Goldman Sachs University, a program for new analysts, associates and summer interns. She took time to have a child before returning in February 2005 after the birth of her first child, taking advantage of a mommy track that allowed her to work part-time.

Hanna then says she hit a "glass ceiling" with respect to pay and advancement, was demoted, and "was systematically excluded from operations and social functions." Her suit says 75 percent of those "selected for termination" in her group had recently taken maternity leave. While on maternity leave for her second child in 2009, she says she was told her job was being eliminated.  

For more:
- here's a Reuters article
- here's the Daily News article

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