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Men can plan parties just as well as women can - they just don’t think it’s important or valuable work for them to be doing, so they don’t apply attention to detail as they should. It perpetuates stereotypes that lead to women taking all the grunt work (personally and professionally) to say women are better.
Women leaders - put young men in charge of your event planning. This is giving them growth opportunities and will hopefully change the dynamic of their own teams when they are leaders later.
No wonder I am single, women are good at doing almost everything, so why I need a man😂😂
I’m planning my office party this year because I wanted to and I get soooooo many Amex points 💰🤷♀️
Women are usually better at event planning. We’re also usually better at cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc etc. Just because we’re better at it doesn’t mean we should be disproportionately tasked with non-promotable administrative tasks. Also at my firm, the junior levels are about 40-50% women so even if these tasks are assigned to junior people, it should still be evenly split.
I kinda agree women generally do a better job planning things than men, I don’t hold it against guys, but it’s pretty much like if you kept on saying guys can’t cook or clean, they would find the excuse not to do it, I think we should encourage guys to practice event planning till they are as good as women and can share the responsibilities. Practice makes perfect and women need to delegate this kind of things to men and let them grow.
I like doing that though
Our project has three females planning this year’s party. And females have in past years, as well.
I usually find this to be true. Part of me doesn’t like it, but the other part of me thinks:
- Junior level people usually get tasked with this. And we know there is more women at junior level positions then when you move up.
- Women are usually better at this. (This is my opinion)
I’m less concerned if women get to asked to plan social events. I Get more concerned if it’s followed by other actions in the workplace.
Very well said, sometimes we help enforce bias subconsciously.
Follow up - do you think party planning will lead to more $$ and help to get promotions if it takes as much time as/takes away time from business development, eminence, etc? I don’t see my male colleagues having to debate this... (and we all know planning a big party takes time)
I strategically agreed to plan my practice’s holiday party this year because the practice lead asked me (originally it was at his house and I got along with his wife). So yes I hate I was asked as a female, however, I’d like to think it will reap rewards. If he asks me to do it again next year I’ll probably decline and ask a more junior person to do it. I should also say, my lead is supper supportive of women. Clearly this is a way in which he is slightly gender biased. And if it happens again to me, I’d probably tell him!