this article crossed my news feed today: https://www.fastcompany.com/40510522/meritocracy-doesnt-exist-and-believing-it-does-is-bad-for-you
here's a key takeaway: > [...] in companies that explicitly held meritocracy as a core value, managers assigned greater rewards to male employees over female employees with identical performance evaluations. This preference disappeared where meritocracy was not explicitly adopted as a value. many aspects of this piece mirror something I wrote for Model View Culture a few years ago: https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-open-source-identity-crisis namely, that "the meritocracy" is a status quo supporting, hierarchy legitimizing myth used to justify people's existing social status and treatment I'll say what I've said before: it's long since time for us to critically examine the way we use the concept of "meritocracy" at Apache (this is especially true in 2019 given what we know about the lack of diversity at the ASF) when I was writing about this in 2014, I was already a few years behind the curve re discourse about culture and tech diversity. it's now 2019 and even FastCompany is writing about it
