Oxford Events, the new replacement for OxTalks, will launch on 16th March. The two-week OxTalks freeze period starts on Monday 2nd March. During this time, there will be no facility to publish or edit events. The existing OxTalks site will remain available to view during this period. Once Oxford Events launches, you will need a Halo login to submit events. Full details are available on the Staff Gateway.
Following the arrival of the first child, women’s absence rates soar and become less predictable. This fall in workplace presenteeism harms women’s wages, especially in jobs with low substitutability. Although both presenteeism and job uniqueness are rewarded, we document that women’s likelihood of holding jobs with low substitutability decreases relative to men’s after childbearing. This gap persists, with important long-run wage implications. We highlight that the parenthood wage penalty for women could be reduced by organizing work so that more employees have tasks that can be performed satisfactorily by other employees in the workplace
