I'd just like to chime in and say that the word meritocracy was not invented in the 50%. You can clearly see that here: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c

I'd just like to chime in and say that the word meritocracy was not invented in the 50%. You can clearly see that here: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=meritocracy&year_start=1800&year_end=1900&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cmeritocracy%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=meritocracy&ye...