We’ve all been there or heard of it. Enthusiastically planning Diwali parties, not-so-enthusiastically creating PPTs summing up off-site learnings, joining committees and so on. Office housework somehow always finds its way to women. These unseen tasks don’t move your career forward, but they do keep the office running. While global data points at women taking on more office housework, stats from the Indian workforce are woefully unavailable. Casual chats reflect this unspoken trend being real, but people are reluctant to openly admit biases.
We asked women (and experts) how to stop being the default fixer and start getting credit where it’s due at the link -bit.ly/3JGanck
Have you been the unofficial mom of your workplace?
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We’ve all been there or heard of it. Enthusiastically planning Diwali parties, not-so-enthusiastically creating PPTs summing up off-site learnings, joining committees and so on. Office housework somehow always finds its way to women. These unseen tasks don’t move your career forward, but they do keep the office running.
While global data points at women taking on more office housework, stats from the Indian workforce are woefully unavailable. Casual chats reflect this unspoken trend being real, but people are reluctant to openly admit biases.
We asked women (and experts) how to stop being the default fixer and start getting credit where it’s due at the link
-bit.ly/3JGanck
Have you been the unofficial mom of your workplace?
Representative image: Still from ‘ The Royals’
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