Posted on 09/21/2023 3:00:30 PM PDT by DoodleBob
…A strong RTO push is likely to blunt the gains of the last two years — when U.S. women reached new highs in labor force participation and men a new level of unpaid household work. It was nowhere near equality, but we were heading in the right direction.
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A 2016 analysis from …Australia found that men's applications for flexible work arrangements were twice as likely to be rejected as women's….Although such arrangements increased women's job satisfaction, they seemed to have the opposite effect on men, who said they had been stigmatized by upper management. One manager actually said it out loud to a man who had asked about going part-time: "Part-time is traditionally only something we make work for women."
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Men are more likely to be punished for explicitly seeking work-life balance because of an outdated assumption about the division of household labor: that a married woman will cut back at work and that a man…will always be on call.
Bain's study jibes with earlier academic research in the U.S. that found that men pay a higher penalty than women for seeking flexible work arrangements. This is particularly true when men explain that the reason for their request is to take on traditionally female tasks, like caring for children. Perhaps sensing this, men are less likely to ask.
A 2015 study found that male consultants were criticized for taking even a two-week parental leave; men at the same firm who took three-week vacations weren't. And men who were sneaky about seeking work-family balance — by, say, carefully arranging their phone calls to appear busy all day when in reality they were with their kids — faced no repercussions. Perhaps that's why men were much more likely to ask for forgiveness rather than permission for working flexibly.
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Sometimes it’s good just to get out of the house.
Vacations are usually taken based upon company policy-—Work X number of years, entitled to XY number of vacations days.Comparing to “parental leave’ is just nuts.
I can remember when even the new Mom was back to work in short order.
Pretty sure there were more divorces when both spouses were working from home and never left each other’s sights.
When my company announced 2 days a week, my wife told me I would be going 5.
I somehow imagine Aussie husbands going into ask for househusband flexibility—and on the sly saying, “But please, for the sake of God, don’t give it to me!”
This chic is insufferable. "outdated assumptions".
RE: Sometimes it’s good just to get out of the house.
Some female comedian or columnist said that after listing things the new tech world made possible: No need to go to a movie theater with big screen TV and streaming movies, food can be delivered to you, banking and bill paying without setting foot inside a bank for years, texting and emailing rather than drive to visit friends’ homes, top quality exercise equipment at home so no need to drive to a fitness place.
Australia is highly gynocentric and misandrist.
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