Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is one of the most polarizing issues in business and society. Advocates claim that DEI enhances fairness, while critics argue it undermines meritocracy. The problems often stem from the practice of DEI—reducing it to demographic diversity—rather than its principle.
Alex Edmans
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Justification trajectories for pension inequality in Chile (2016-2023): the role of social class and beliefs in meritocracy. [PDF]
Front SociolCastillo JC +3 more
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Not “Cut Out” For the Field: An Analysis of Women Navigating Gendered Boundaries in STEM Education
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gender inequities in access and promotions in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education and careers pose challenges for women to persist and excel in the field. However, limited scholarship examines how women's STEM pathways are shaped by informal and formal STEM education in the K–12 period.
Zora Haque +3 more
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Perceptions of inequality and meritocracy: their interplay in shaping preferences for market justice in Chile (2016-2023). [PDF]
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“Tragic,” “Torment,” and “Torture”: Leadership as Fertile Ground for Women's Organizational Misogyny
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This feminist study explores women's hostilities toward women in UK leadership as organizational misogyny. Organizations are mostly silent about misogyny, and gender studies have yet to empirically interrogate organizational misogyny and expose it as a critical method of women's oppression. Here, we explore women's organizational misogyny (WOM)
Sharon Mavin, Gina Grandy
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Cognitive gene enhancements and the capitalist meritocracy. [PDF]
BMC Med EthicsPrince S.
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Speaking Up and Standing Out: How Gendered Logics Shape Women's Self‐Advocacy at Work
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A widely held assumption is that women self‐advocate less than men. Our study challenges this view. Drawing on interviews with 71 men and women in a multinational company's leadership development pipeline and 10 HRM managers, we examine how women navigate self‐advocacy within gendered organizational logics.
Vedika Lal +4 more
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The Bad Side of a Good Economy: How Perceptions of the Economy Moderate the Relationship between Financial Strain and Powerlessness. [PDF]
Soc Psychol QLiang JB, Wilson A, Schieman S.
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Meritocracy and its discontents
Public ChoiceAbstract This paper explores the justifications for meritocracy, using the assignment of students to classrooms and workers to firms as contexts. I argue that there is fundamental distinction between retrospective meritocracy, in which assignments are rewards for past achievements such as test scores, and prospective meritocracy, in ...
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Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the growing presence of women in creative and leadership roles within the fashion industry, many continue to face barriers to leadership progression. Leadership rejection remains a critical yet underexplored experience that can significantly affect women's professional identity and aspirations.
Atif Bilal +5 more
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