This article was amended on 9 November 2015 to reflect the fact that Ms Belghiti subsequently withdrew her claim and to remove the name of a colleague she referred to.
City bankers made “bids” for women and labelled those they found less attractive as “offers only”, according to a female trader claiming £3.5 million for sex discrimination.
Dalal Belghiti, 36, said women were treated as “mere sex objects” at Jefferies International investment bank, where she was a senior vice-president of the international credit team.
The former Lehman Brothers employee told an employment tribunal that one colleague hired women to dance provocatively with clients at a nightclub and sucked one of the girls’ fingers while the others touched the men suggestively.
Ms Belghiti, who had a