NOTEBOOK – A GOOD READ: Essay: Women’s work is often not rewarded

“If we want to understand why they leave and what employers can do to retain them, we need to address the issue of “unrewardable work,” Linda Babcock and Lise Vesterlund write in an essay for The Wall Street Journal. This job includes things like onboarding a new employee, taking notes during a meeting, or serving on an internal committee, they wrote. This work is even more often required of women of color. This contributes to why many women quit their jobs during the pandemic. They also cited examples of women wanting a job that fulfilled them and gave them a good work-life balance more than they worried about higher wages. But employers can do something about it. For example, a company realized that employees helping others weren’t reflected in their performance reviews, so they started tracking it.