Speaking from the distaff side here, meritocracy would be a really nice thing to have. But what happens all too often is that a company wanting to distance itse

Speaking from the distaff side here, meritocracy would be a really nice thing to have. But what happens all too often is that a company wanting to distance itself from xxx-discrimination will quota hire the not-terribly meritocratic, because hey we just confirmed our own prejudices. What happens when genuinely meritocratic hiring is introduced is quite interesting: http://www.nber.org/papers/w5903 http://www.nber.org/papers/w5903