20: What to Do About Women Leaving the Workforce
If your current experience as an employee of your company were a song, what song would it be? Upbeat with a lot of drums? Complex and full with lots of instruments? A lonely violin playing in a minor key?
“September” by EWF is my favorite song. It immediately makes me feel energized and joyful. I only need to hear the first five notes and--bam!--I’m groovin’. Those who know me well text me every time they hear September being played. And I always say my life will be complete when my loved ones think of me every time they hear that song. In this way, September represents something bigger: my connection to others.
I just love music. I studied it in college...and I perform as a singer to this day. One of the things I love about music is the range of how it makes us feel--sad, pensive, joyous, energized.
Like music, the experience we have as employees is about a series of interactions, it confused different emotions, and it creates an overarching feeling of how we relate to our work.
There’s never been a more important time to consider our experience at work than now. This is especially true because we’ve seen unprecedented numbers of women leave the workforce throughout the past year. We’re talkin’ 4.5 million women!!
How many women have come to feel like their work and home lives have blended during the COVID pandemic? You feel this? How many have left the workforce as a result? Are you among them?
To future-proof our workforces, companies need us women...but not with the usual ploys. We need a better experience… one that’s focused on our wellbeing, on how we want to feel as employees, and on a set of organizational commitments to address workplace disparities.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE
Problem and causes of WEXIT - Women Exiting the Workforce
What we can do to make the workplace work for women
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