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No merit alone doesn’t work. You absolutely need to be both charismatic and that guy who’s constantly asking their boss what they can do for promotions or more
by jackblemming 5y ago
No merit alone doesn’t work. You absolutely need to be both charismatic and that guy who’s constantly asking their boss what they can do for promotions or more money. Bonus points if you’re tall. That’s pretty much it.
- pempem 5y agoBeing male doesn't hurt.
- rajin444 5y agoYes, being tall and assertive is more common among males. What point are you trying to make?
- lhnz 5y agoHis point is that a tall and assertive woman would be less likely to be made CEO than her male contemporary.
- pempem 5y agoThanks :) that is in fact my point! https://hbr.org/2016/04/if-theres-only-one-woman-in-your-candidate-pool-theres-statistically-no-chance-shell-be-hired https://hbr.org/2016/04/if-theres-only-one-woman-in-your-can... There are more CEOs of large U.S. companies who are named David (4.5%) than there are CEOs who are women (4.1%) — and David isn’t even the most common first name among CEOs. (That would be John, at 5.3%.)
- rajin444 5y agoAre we able to construct experiments to test this? I’m not sure how that’s possible given the confounds we don’t have the ability to control for (genetics being a huge one). Looking at group level statistics can’t provide a definitive answer due to this. If you have some links that prove otherwise I’d love to see them!