The word of the month for June is NPT, which stands for “non-promotable task.”
I have just finished reading The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work (2022), by Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser, Lise Vesterlund, and Laurie Weingart. The starting point of the book is a group of women who start meeting to talk through how utterly and completely swamped by work they’ve become. They are so busy that they cannot find time to make progress on higher-priority projects, not to mention time for themselves and their personal lives. So they start a “No Club,” a support group
