Along with the suggestion that there are "no advantages" to being a man at work
Correlation doesn't always equal causation. There is an implicit bias toward the wealthy in this country. If you don't have a six (or seven, eight, or nine) figure income, 538's datapoint could also indicate a level of despair for one's overall lot in life -- a "we're all being screwed by the 0.01%" mentality. I know I feel that way a lot of the time.
Money equates very directly to agency in America. If you don't have it, your opinion doesn't matter. At work, the size of your paycheck directly correlates with how much your opinion matters to your boss, your boss's boss, et al. You say something in a meeting, and although it could be word-for-word the same thing as what the janitor said in the lobby a few minutes earlier, your voice gets heard over the janitor's.
Thinking of this from another angle
Correlation doesn't always equal causation. There is an implicit bias toward the wealthy in this country. If you don't have a six (or seven, eight, or nine) figure income, 538's datapoint could also indicate a level of despair for one's overall lot in life -- a "we're all being screwed by the 0.01%" mentality. I know I feel that way a lot of the time.
Money equates very directly to agency in America. If you don't have it, your opinion doesn't matter. At work, the size of your paycheck directly correlates with how much your opinion matters to your boss, your boss's boss, et al. You say something in a meeting, and although it could be word-for-word the same thing as what the janitor said in the lobby a few minutes earlier, your voice gets heard over the janitor's.