18/03/2024
Disturbing realities and now confirmed with research. While in a South African/African context highly formidable female engineers will be forced out of organisations, have attempts on your life or be harassed physically and sexually. My fellow POC female engineers I see You 💪🏽
Article repost by Kate Morgan
It's not just jobs like caregiving and service positions that demand emotional labour – every workplace requires it in some capacity. By and large, tasks like planning parties, service days and team-building exercises, maintaining relationships, and building community all fall to women within mixed-gender workplaces. Studies show women provide much more of the "office housework" – tasks that are associated with "low promotability".
A lot of women entering workplaces that were previously male dominated are finding that they are expected, by virtue of being women, to provide an added shift of emotional labour – Rose Hackman
"In an engineering firm, say, to get ahead, a male engineer has to be two things: confident and competent," says Hackman. "For a female engineer to get ahead, she has to display the same attributes, and then she also has to be kind and reassuring and a team player."
In other words, women also must be confident and competent, plus considerate and compassionate. But ironically, while women will be left behind if they don't do the extra work, it doesn't do much to help them rise to the top. "All the extra services women perform at work – raising money for things, planning events, remembering occasions – that sort of stuff doesn't count," says Ramsey. "It takes a lot of organisation and multitasking; there's some solid skill sets in that kind of labour. But then when it comes time to be promoted, none of that work is part
https://bbc.com/worklife/article/20240313-invisible-emotional-labour-women-in-workplace
The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) Consulting Engineers South Africa BBC Two BBC News Sunday TIMES Shanthini Naidoo Devi Sankaree Govender
Ready to tell my story! This nonsense must end.
