<p>Medwell, this is where your engineering education may have fallen short. Hudson is a conservative think tank. Nothing wrong with that of course, but what you will find at particular sources are reports that will match what they believe.</p>
<p>Listen, you may personally as a young person believe the world is fair and meritorious. Those who have worked a lifetime already know that the simplistic, idealistic version of youth is anything but. The world is a political, irrational place. Biases operate often under the radar and are not even conscious to those that hold them. Most performance is extremely subjectively evaluated, especially as you move up the ladder and away from counting widgets to abstract and complex things like innovation, effective management, strategic development. </p>
<p>You can ake up all the naive theories you want to hold onto illusions, but be assured, there is a reason that 5 decades of research, parsed every which way, and yes statistically controlling for obviously basic things like ‘occupation’ and ‘tenure’ and ‘rated performance’ shows that women consistently earn significantly less than men.</p>
<p>This just makes me really sad you are starting off with such a simplistic and unrealistic view of the world of work and yet you are the future of management…if even ‘you’ don’t get it, we have at least another generation of this nonsense to deal with.</p>