BuzzFeed spoke to Brands, who has a PhD in management and is a professor at the UCL School of Management, where she directs an open-enrollment course on leading inclusively.
“I research gender inequality in organizations, as well as teach and consult on this topic. We focus a lot on the major inequalities women face in their careers — the gender pay gap, the gender leadership gap, overt sexism, etc. But every day, women experience smaller inequalities as well, and these smaller inequalities add up over time. My daycare example is one of them. One phone call isn’t a big deal. But if every phone call goes to me, it means I am regularly being pulled away from my work to answer a query, arrange alternative care, pick him up, etc. The cumulative effect is an additional mental load and a time cost, not to mention … the potential to make me look unreliable and not seriously committed to my career. If they never call my partner, not only are we not sharing those costs, but it also means he gets sidelined as a parent,” she said.
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/kristatorres/daycare-calls-mom-instead-of-dad-twitter
