![]() In the forty years since the term ‘glass ceiling’ was invented, it seems not much has changed for working women. She thinks many women in the workplace are expected to be good at multitasking - doing more than one thing at the same time.įor working mums, who are raising a family as well as developing careers at work, this involves some juggling - trying to manage your life when you are involved in many different activities which all demand your time. Natalie found herself doing non-promotable tasks. far outstrips the men in a lot of cases, for example, you know, a lot of women in the team would also be juggling having kids at home, being a working mum. It does definitely occur that the women in the team, the level of multitasking they’re doing just. I was tasked with being the team party organiser, so that was my role. Note-taking is one of them, in meetings, when you, kind of, are told that you can’t really speak or say anything. Here she tells BBC World Service’s Business Daily about her experience of being asked to take on non-promotable tasks in her work as a trainee solicitor.Īs a trainee solicitor pretty much every task that you take on is a non-promotable task. Natalie started her successful dental cosmetics company, SmileTime, after winning a business competition on the TV show, Dragon’s Den. ![]() Many of these issues are made worse by non-promotable tasks. Professor Vesterlund lists some workplace gender imbalances, including job dissatisfaction and burn-out – that’s tiredness and exhaustion caused by working too hard. And we’ve been trying to sort of address all these objectives with lots of different methods and techniques, and what is interesting about the non-promotable work is that it, in a very structural sense, contributes to all of those differences. Their dissatisfaction with their work is much greater. Burn-out for women is much greater than it is for men. We’ve been noticing gender differences in wages, in advancement, in negotiation. Here’s Lise Vesterlund explaining more to BBC World Service programme, Business Daily. Research shows that most of these tasks are done by women. Professor Vesterlund calls these non-promotable tasks, jobs like taking notes, organising social events or chairing meetings – jobs that take time and effort but do little to increase company profits or to boost your career. Professor Lise Vesterlund is one of the four academics who co-wrote The No Club, a book discussing how females disproportionately take on the unimportant, less visible tasks at work. Well, we’ll find out later if you’re right. So, who was the first woman to become British Prime Minister? Was it: Despite the glass ceiling, women do make it to the top jobs in many areas of work and business, even in the male-dominated world of politics. And, of course, we’ll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well.īut first, I have a question for you, Sam. Even today, many working women find themselves at a point in their career beyond which they cannot progress, an invisible barrier to succeed referred to as the glass ceiling.īut in this programme, we’ll be meeting the members of The No Club, a group of women saying ‘no’ to the glass ceiling by publicly questioning the kinds of jobs men and women are asked to do in the workplace. In many workplaces around the world, it’s the men who are considered ‘born leaders’ and promoted up the corporate career ladder, while the women are given less important roles. A male boss asks a woman to do all the jobs that keep the office running but do nothing to advance her career or improve her chances of promotion – that’s when someone moves up into a higher, better paid position in a company. A male boss says to a female employee – “You’re great at organising things – would you buy a card and get everyone in the office to sign it? Oh, and we’ll need to order a cake too – thanks, you’re amazing!” Sam, does this situation sound familiar? It’s a colleague’s birthday next week. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. Note: This is not a word-for-word transcript. Trying to manage your job or life when you are involved in several different activities which all demand your time Transcript Unimportant and time-consuming jobs which helps a worker’s organisation but do nothing to advance their careerĭoing more than one thing at the same time Moving someone up into a higher, more important or better paid position in a company or organisationĪn invisible barrier to advancing in your career Listen to the programme to find out the answer. Who was the first woman to become British Prime Minister? Sam and Neil talk about gender and the workplace and teach you related vocabulary along the way. No more 'coffee girl'! Many women are tired of being given unimportant tasks as they see their male colleagues go up the corporate career ladder. Hear about the women questioning the kinds of jobs expected from them.
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