From Axios:
In the new N.Y. Times Magazine cover story, Taffy Brodesser-Akner reports a culture of sexual harassment and discrimination at the nation’s largest jewelry-store conglomerate, Sterling Jewelers, and its Kay and Jared jewelry brands:
According to my interviews, to be a good old boy, you didn’t have to have achieved a specific position or have been particularly good at jewelry sales or management. You didn’t even have to be a boy (though it helped). It was a state of mind, an acquiescence to a culture and the mission to do what you could to perpetuate it.
This played out through a system in which men were consistently paid more than women and promoted more quickly; a promotions system in which men received, as many I spoke to described it, a "tap on the shoulder" for advancement instead of being rewarded through any kind of predictable, fair system ...
