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As will be featured on the March 2, 2009 cover of Forbes Magazine, a group of five female former employees of Citigroup, ("Citi") have filed class charges of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") in Manhattan against Citi alleging that they were laid off in November 2008 as a result of unlawful discrimination, specifically alleging that a glass ceiling exists at Citi and that in the latest round of layoffs, lesser qualified or under-performing male employees were retained at the expense of female employees.