Business doesn't cut you any slack because of your gender. You're either good at what you do or you're not.
The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.
I've had a lot of bosses that I didn't agree with, but the worst boss was very much me myself. So, I can't let myself slack off, and if I do slacking off, I'm the one that's yelling at myself. I've worked with a lot of different employers, and none of them have been as aggressive as I have been.
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
The pace of increases in labor compensation provides another possible indicator, albeit an imperfect one, of the degree of labor market slack.