The No Club, Linda Babcock
The No Club, Linda Babcock
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The No Club
Putting a Stop to Women's Dead-End Work

Author: Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser, Lise Vesterlund, Laurie Weingart

Narrator: Gabra Zackman

Unabridged: 6 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/03/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

In this “long overdue manifesto on gender equality in the workplace,” (Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit), The No Club offers a timely call and an action plan to unburden women from work that goes unrewarded.

The No Club started when four women, crushed by endless to-do lists, banded together to get their work lives under control. Working harder than ever, they still trailed behind their male colleagues. And so, they vowed to say no to requests that pulled them away from the work that mattered most to their careers. Their over-a-decade-long journey and subsequent, groundbreaking research reveals that women everywhere are unfairly burdened with “non-promotable work,” a tremendous problem we can—and must—solve.

All organizations have work that no one wants to do: planning the office party, screening interns, attending to that time-consuming client, or simply helping others with their work. A woman, most often, takes on these tasks. In study after study, the original “No Club”—professors Linda Babcock (bestselling author of Women Don’t Ask), Brenda Peyser, Lise Vesterlund, and Laurie Weingart—document that women are disproportionately asked and expected to do this work. The imbalance leaves women overcommitted and underutilized as companies forfeit revenue, productivity, and top talent.

The No Club walks through how any woman can rebalance her workload, empowering individuals to make savvy decisions about the work they take on. The authors also illuminate how organizations can reassess how they assign and reward work to level the playing field. With hard data, personal anecdotes from women of all stripes, self- and workplace-assessments for immediate use, and innovative advice from the authors’ consulting with Fortune 500 companies, this book will forever change the conversation about how we advance women’s careers and achieve equity in the 21st century.

About Linda Babcock

Linda Babcock is a professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of Women Don’t Ask and Ask for It. A behavioral economist, she is the founder and director of PROGRESS, which pursues positive social change for women and girls through education, partnerships, and research. Babcock’s media appearances include Good Morning America, ABC’s World News TonightThe New York TimesThe Washington PostThe Wall Street JournalGlamourCosmopolitanUSA TODAY, and more.

About Brenda Peyser

Brenda Peyser has held leadership positions in the corporate world and academia for over thirty years. Most recently, she was a professor of communications at Carnegie Mellon, where she also served as associate dean of the School of Public Policy and Management. She has worked with organizations as a consultant and speaker on women’s workplace issues.

About Lise Vesterlund

Lise Vesterlund is a professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh and founding director of the Behavioral Economic Design Initiative. Her work with Fortune 100 companies addresses issues of diversity, equity and inclusion. Published in leading economic journals, her research has been covered by NPR, The New York TimesThe Washington Post, The EconomistThe AtlanticThe GuardianChicago Tribune, and Forbes.

About Laurie Weingart

Laurie R. Weingart is a professor of organizational behavior at Carnegie Mellon University. She served as CMU’s Interim Provost/Chief Academic Officer, Director of the Accelerate Leadership Center, and a senior associate dean at CMU’s Tepper School of Business. Her award-winning research on team collaboration and conflict has been covered by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Business Insider and published in top management and psychology journals.

About Gabra Zackman

Gabra Zackman knows romance. Her clever and “thrilling romantic caper” (Library Journal) Bod Squad series was inspired by the more than one hundred romance and women’s fiction titles she has narrated for audio. She divides her time between her native New York City and Denver, Colorado.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Stuart

This is an excellently written book about the tasks that women are constantly asked to do at work that do not help their careers and why they are asked to do them. Everyone should read this, including managers so they can recognize when this is happening and put in place strategies (that the authors......more

Goodreads review by Jess

“What is optional for men is often required for women.” “Women feel guilty for saying no.” “There is a collective expectation that women take on un-promotable work.” Yes, yes, and yes. This is a book that tells women and people of color to say no to doing extra “non-promotable tasks” (NPTs) at work. A......more

Goodreads review by J.J.

This book is geared towards women in academia, but would be useful outside of as well, in learning how to set boundaries and do the work which will help your career. It introduces NPT, non-promotable tasks, and the fact that many of these get allocated to women. It teaches women how to identify thes......more

Goodreads review by Roxann

This is a great resource for hashtag girlbosses focused on career advancement. There was a brief mention of a woman who wanted to spend more time with her family, but overall the book assumes you want to keep working the same amount, but on more "promotable" tasks. Fair enough for some people I gues......more