FWIW, this past spring, the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, a federal agency, updated a 2002 study on the status of women working for .GOV. This updated study is available
here.
In 2009, the board updated a 2007 study on fair and equitable treatment for employees working for .GOV. That study is available
there.
Both reports indicate that although .GOV has covered a lot of ground, there remains wide spread perceptions among a variety of groups that merit alone does not lead to hiring and to promotion. The principal culprit? Favoritism. Source is
here.
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"People say I was discriminated against by a supervisor who is not like me, and the fact boiled down to that they do not like me," said Cynthia Ferentinos, the MSPB project manager for the report. "But it's not racism, it's not sexism. It's favoritism."
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