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The Work That Makes All Other Work Possible - Ai-jen Poo

Invisible Labor Readings

Being Black at Work Right Now Means Doing a Lot of Extra Emotional Labor
Bon Appetit EIC Adam Rapoport Resigns Over Racist Brownface Photo Resurfaces
Don’t Just Put on a Happy Face at Work
Gender Differences in Accepting and Receiving Requests for Tasks with Low Promotability
Gender differences in task allocations may sustain vertical gender segregation in labor markets. We examine the allocation of a task that everyone prefers be completed by someone else (writing a report, serving on a committee, etc.) and find evidence that women, more than men, volunteer, are asked to volunteer, and accept requests to volunteer for such tasks.
How The Pandemic Is Negatively Impacting Women More Than Men, And What Has To Change
Unfortunately, mothers are still shouldering the bulk of the caregiving, even though most fathers are now at home full time. As unpaid caregivers, women are still performing 76.2% of total hours of unpaid care work, more than three times as much as men, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO).
How To End The “Office Housework” Gender Bias
More women than men get stuck taking notes at meetings or planning office parties. Here’s why it matters and how to change it.
The Inequities of the Tenure-Track System
The work involved in supporting and mentoring students, legitimizing one’s research, and navigating ethno-racial microaggressions is part of the “invisible labor” that most colleges and universities do not recognize in the tenure and promotion process.
Invisible Labor: A Mixed-Method Study Of African American Women And Their Emotional Labor In The Academy
Examines how black women instructors and professors engage in emotional labor through performances in order to resist controlling images and stereotypes related to their race and gender
What Is Faculty Diversity Worth to a University?
call this work “invisible labor” — not because no one sees it but because institutions don’t value it with the currency they typically use to reward faculty work: reappointment, tenure, and promotion.
Why has COVID-19 been especially harmful for working women?
COVID-19 is hard on women because the U.S. economy is hard on women, and this virus excels at taking existing tensions and ratcheting them up.
Women are drowning in unpaid labor at home. Stop making them do it at work
Minda Harts, Sarah Lacy, and Eve Rodsky make a case that companies should pay women and BIPOC for their unpaid labor in employee resource groups that help make their workplaces more inclusive.

#ThanksForTyping

Bruce Holsinger, Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English at the University of Virginia, created the #ThanksforTyping hashtag in 2017. It began with a conversation at a Starbucks and led to a conference in 2019 at the University of Oxford.

https://thanks4typing.wordpress.com
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ishmaeldaro/thanks-for-typing-with-your-two-aching-fingers
https://www.npr.org/2017/03/30/521931310/-thanksfortyping-spotlights-unnamed-women-in-literary-acknowledgements