https://reasonstobecheerful.world/job-sharing-career-gender-gap/
"After four children, four different jobs and two big promotions, the 15-year
partnership between Christiane Haasis and Angela Nelissen is still going
strong. Their secret, according to Nelissen, has been boundaries.
“We get along really well and she knows me incredibly well, but it’s not like
we are best buddies hanging out on holidays and mingling on the weekends. It’s
not like she and I have a love affair,” says Nelissen.
Nelissen and Haasis, who are based in Hamburg, Germany, have been in a job
share for the past 15 years at Unilever. The job share has been a way for them
to have it all — the high-flying career, time for family, and time for
themselves, without the compromise on ability or ambition that often
accompanies a traditional scale back to part-time.
Job sharing allows anyone, but most often post-parental leave returners, to
essentially work part-time hours but in a full-time role that is shared with
another person. The split varies between companies, but a common pattern is
three days a week each with one crossover day. They are performance managed and
even promoted as one unit.
Job sharing arose as an antidote to the “motherhood penalty” — a gap between
men and women in lifetime earnings of around 20 percent attributed solely to
having and caring for children, as calculated by the Association of British
Insurers. The World Economic Forum has even recognized job sharing as a pathway
towards “economic transformation” to create a more inclusive model of work."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
