The Fix by Michelle P. King

Author:Michelle P. King
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2020-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

More and more organizations like Microsoft, Airbnb, and Twitter are providing employees with access to maternity and paternity leave, which can range anywhere from sixteen to fifty-two weeks in some cases. There is just one catch. Often these policies only apply to full-time, salaried employees. While policies like this one are extremely generous, they are not helping all women. Family-friendly policies and programs are often linked to an employee’s salary and job status, which means that part-time or temporary workers don’t qualify, even though part-time workers often need these benefits the most.27

It is not just the benefits women stand to lose. Working part-time carries with it a wide range of career-limiting penalties. For example, when women transition into part-time work, they are often demoted to a lower-level role, carrying out tasks that are well below their capabilities. Part-time workers regularly earn less per hour for the same work as their full-time counterparts and are often denied promotion opportunities.28 All of the penalties associated with part-time work often go unnoticed in organizations. If companies want to remove the barriers to women’s advancement at work, they need to start by providing similar levels of support to their part-time employees—the majority of whom are women.

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