Forget about the young starters, I will quote you an example of a lady-boss who was too afraid to organise a girl-only sit down to talk about workplace sexual harassment talk because ‘the boss’ will say - ‘this is not a place to make a show of woman power’ - whatever that means in this context. The boss is btw a lech.
Such a biting, sharp and content rich writing. Mahima - #MahaMahima
In the team that I have most recently been in, we had a rotation system for chairing the meeting and taking notes. No nonsense about, oh you are great at notes / chairing. This was a virtual team of 11 across 4 continents.
In a team in a previous role where we were in the same office, we would celebrate birthdays. We had a list of birthdays and the person in the nth position in the list, organised everything for the birthday celebrations of the person in the (n-1)th place.
I cannot think of any better way of democratising 'mum' tasks, especially since the team manager was part of the lists and tasks too.
This one struck a chord. The thing is, at 32 I was 'cake lady' for my batch at a B school. I took it up willingly because I genuinely wanted to eat awesome cakes on every birthday. Besides, I never let anyone in the batch reduce me to that label. As long as someone chooses to perform the housekeeping jobs, man or woman, it's cool. But I sometimes wonder, is a woman shooting herself in the foot when she makes that choice?
I can relate to this in our college cultural groups as well. Girls were expected to do tasks which were "girly" like decorations and everything and boys handled the technical stuff. However, I have just started working in the Corporate and I believe everyone is responsible for similar tasks. It's probably because my team is lead by a woman and more women in our team then men.
I can relate to this so well!! I was the designated bouquet buyer for my process for a long time..Until I finally put my foot down..And the irony is even after it was handed over to one of the guys, he would still call me from the Flower Shop asking what flowers to select!!
Very well written, unfortunately I couldn't relate with this one at all.... I am the cake ordering person in the office, the party planner if I may and I see no harm in taking up the job and infact I happily put that down in my performance evaluation. I do understand sometimes this can pile onto your existing responsibilities but that's more about how we manage our work load (no offence meant, my comments are purely based on personal experience). I rather found this post demeaning the 'housekeeping' tasks which on the contrary we should promote to the same level as the office work to create a level playing field for people who are good at 'housekeeping' irrespective of gender.
Wow, I'm really sad that this is the status of so many workplaces. Hope to see things change soon. As always, loved the post!
Aao sakhi notes banayein…killed it.
Forget about the young starters, I will quote you an example of a lady-boss who was too afraid to organise a girl-only sit down to talk about workplace sexual harassment talk because ‘the boss’ will say - ‘this is not a place to make a show of woman power’ - whatever that means in this context. The boss is btw a lech.
Such a biting, sharp and content rich writing. Mahima - #MahaMahima
In the team that I have most recently been in, we had a rotation system for chairing the meeting and taking notes. No nonsense about, oh you are great at notes / chairing. This was a virtual team of 11 across 4 continents.
In a team in a previous role where we were in the same office, we would celebrate birthdays. We had a list of birthdays and the person in the nth position in the list, organised everything for the birthday celebrations of the person in the (n-1)th place.
I cannot think of any better way of democratising 'mum' tasks, especially since the team manager was part of the lists and tasks too.
This one struck a chord. The thing is, at 32 I was 'cake lady' for my batch at a B school. I took it up willingly because I genuinely wanted to eat awesome cakes on every birthday. Besides, I never let anyone in the batch reduce me to that label. As long as someone chooses to perform the housekeeping jobs, man or woman, it's cool. But I sometimes wonder, is a woman shooting herself in the foot when she makes that choice?
Amazing post Mahima!
I can relate to this in our college cultural groups as well. Girls were expected to do tasks which were "girly" like decorations and everything and boys handled the technical stuff. However, I have just started working in the Corporate and I believe everyone is responsible for similar tasks. It's probably because my team is lead by a woman and more women in our team then men.
I can relate to this so well!! I was the designated bouquet buyer for my process for a long time..Until I finally put my foot down..And the irony is even after it was handed over to one of the guys, he would still call me from the Flower Shop asking what flowers to select!!
Can relate with this so much. Loved the memes too 😉
Very well written, unfortunately I couldn't relate with this one at all.... I am the cake ordering person in the office, the party planner if I may and I see no harm in taking up the job and infact I happily put that down in my performance evaluation. I do understand sometimes this can pile onto your existing responsibilities but that's more about how we manage our work load (no offence meant, my comments are purely based on personal experience). I rather found this post demeaning the 'housekeeping' tasks which on the contrary we should promote to the same level as the office work to create a level playing field for people who are good at 'housekeeping' irrespective of gender.