An interesting twist on gender bias in the financial services industry: Debrahlee Lorenzana, a former banker in a midtown Citigroup (NYSE: C) branch, claims in an arbitration case that she was fired for being too good-looking. She wasn't subjected to the expected boom-boom room form of harassment. Rather she was harassed to make herself less attractive in order to be less distracting to her male colleagues, according to The Village Voice.

"They ordered her to stop wearing turtlenecks. She was also forbidden to wear pencil skirts, three-inch heels, or fitted business suits." Lorenzana, 33, pointed out female colleagues whose clothing was far more revealing than hers. But she was told she was just generating too much attention. What followed was a lengthy battle with her boss and eventually folks in the HR department. She was eventually let go.

What to make of this? It would be tempting to interpret it as an interesting commentary on post-modern feminism and Wall Street. But it may be one of those offbeat human interest stories that generates more attention for the man-bites-dog qualities. Gender bias on Wall Street is still an issue worthy of ink. 

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