>I don't think it is reasonable for executives - male or female - to sue their employers over promotion decisions Why? We have all kinds of rules about discrim

>I don't think it is reasonable for executives - male or female - to sue their employers over promotion decisions Why? We have all kinds of rules about discrimination, they can and do include promotion decisions. >We know from Berkson's Paradox in statistics that people without formal qualifications who get a job anyway tend to be good at what they are doing. This would only be true if you assume that interviews are consistently perfect judges of job performance, which is well-known to not be the case. >Maybe some people want to pretend that Google executives are delicate daisies that need special legal protections but it just isn't true. It isn't special legal protection. It's very regular legal protection. It's the kind of legal protection which should be provided to everybody (and in practice is provided to everybody who can afford a lawyer).