The US' fraught history with race and gender were always glaring flaws in this story , but until relatively recently, the data suggested that this self-conception of meritocracy was true to a ...

The Rise of the Meritocracy is a dystopian satire written almost sixty years ago by pioneering sociologist Michael Young. It imagined a modern society uncannily like our own and coined the term ...

In its annual report last week, oil company ExxonMobil said that it was focused “on building an engaged, global workforce; grounded in meritocracy”. Rich Lesser, global chair of Boston ...