Allison Gamba was a success in the investment business at Goldman Sachs, writes Alexia Fernandez Campbell for vox.com.

She went to business school. She sat on the New York Stock Exchange. She turned mediocre stocks into top-performing investments.

She put in nine years at the company and was doing the job of managing director, overseeing 15 other traders. Yet when it came time for promotions in 2010, her boss failed to nominate her for the job.

No woman in her division had ever gotten that far.

The now-43-year-old former stock trader living in Havertown decided to join a class action lawsuit against Goldman Sachs in 2013.

The lawsuit, representing 3,000 other women, accused the company of systematically paying women less than men for the same work.

“Goldman Sachs denies the allegations in the lawsuit and is aggressively contesting the class claims,” a company spokesperson wrote in a statement to Vox. Both sides are preparing for trial.

Goldman Sachs is one of several major American companies being sued by women for equal pay.

“I want to make it right for the future,” Allison said. “It’s not about the money, it’s about getting what you deserve and making it a level playing field.”

Read more about these lawsuits here.

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