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The Hidden Toll of Office Housework on Women
In the debut episode of Women at Work with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a quietly pervasive barrier to women's career advancement: the hidden workload of office housework. They anchor the conversation in a 2024 study from the Harvard Business Review showing that women take on 45 percent more non-promotable tasks than men—tasks like taking meeting notes, planning office parties, or onboarding new hires that rarely factor into promotion decisions. The hosts drill into the specific case of software engineer Ritu, who spent two years documenting every extra task her team assigned her, only to…
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