A Commentary on Miron et al. (2024): Power Maintenance via Illusory Justice Begets Biased Appraisals as Systemic Practice
评论指出高证据门槛等表面公正的做法实际上加重了弱势群体的负担，使不平等自我延续，并提出了促进真正男性盟友关系、重新评估绩效标准等具体对策。
Miron et al. (2024) provide a compelling framework for understanding how dominant group members have the power to strategically manipulate evidentiary standards to sustain systemic inequities, particularly in gendered workplace contexts. Our commentary extends their argument by illustrating how these standards not only inhibit justice, but actively create cascading injustices. Herein, we argue that excessive resource demands imposed by high evidentiary thresholds disproportionately burden disadvantaged groups, effectively reducing their available resources and thus threatening their ability to meet performance standards, ultimately reinforcing and exacerbating organizational inequities. This compounded impact ensures that inequality remains self-perpetuating and largely unchallenged. We likewise identify covert discrimination and structural biases as contemporary manifestations of inequality, highlighting how systems ostensibly designed to address injustice often serve to sustain and even amplify it. We propose actionable strategies to combat these inequities. Specifically, we advocate for a multifaceted approach that fosters genuine male allyship, disallows reductive arguments about gender inequalities, reevaluates the distribution of efforts to combat gender inequality, and considers employment-related strategies (e.g., revisiting norms for performance evaluations, recruitment, hiring) to level the playing field at a systemic level. In doing so, we propose specific pathways to begin dismantling systemic barriers and creating organizational cultures that promote justice, reinforcing the nascent call for systemic change while offering new insights into actionable solutions.