When Big Tech extended additional PTO only to parents during COVID, it brought into laser focus a tension that has existed for years between parents and non-parents on the job. Is everyone pulling their weight? Or does it feel like more is expected of some depending on their reproductive status? Totes shared a NY Times article on the recent Silicon Valley maelstrom with her professional millennial girlfriends and the verdicts are in! Tune is as Totes breaks it down.
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Daisuke Wakabayashi and Sheera Frenkel, NY Times, "Parents Got More Time Off. Then the Backlash Started." (Sept. 2020)