How naïve to imagine that, because someone <i>isn&#x27;t allowed</i> to do something, that it doesn&#x27;t happen. Like the woman in Crane Pumps&#x27; regional sales that couldn&#x27;t be promoted because another VP&#x27;s wife objected to her husband working with a pretty woman. Or the guy that sat in (against company policy) on a senior review of the only woman VP and didn&#x27;t allow any questions that might reveal her stupendous fitness for the next role. She was denied as being &#x27;too small for the position&#x27;, though she&#x27;d managed another company twice the size in her previous job (which the senior VP didn&#x27;t allow to be discussed).<p>Or any number of tricks that are used daily by bigots to fix the game.<p>Any you realize wrong - you have no idea who I am, and likely your own biases have kicked in. It&#x27;s comforting to dismiss someone because they&#x27;re &quot;one of those people&quot;, isn&#x27;t it?