Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.

I'm Ashley Milne tight.

This time, ever been asked to do a bit of office housework?

There was a time where I was asked to order lunch and I just said I'd rather John

ordered lunch as I'm already in charge of meals at home. Great comeback, but it's not always

easy to push back on those requests. Coming up, why women and particularly women of color

end up doing so much extracurricular work and what we can do about it.

Ruchika Tulsihan lives in Seattle, one of several cities she's lived in over the years.

I was born and brought up in Singapore, and I identify as a

Singaporean. My parents were immigrants from India, so, you know, I speak the language. I also

identify as Indians, so Singaporean, Indian. She went to university in the UK, spent a little

time working in India and Singapore, and later moved to the US.

She's in her early 30s, married with a little boy. She's a journalist and a professor and an author.

Her book is called The Diversity Advantage, Fixing Gender Inequality in the Workplace.

And over the years, Richieka has found herself involved in tasks at work that aren't strictly

speaking anything to do with her job.

They're more administrative tasks, extra stuff she's been asked to take on to help out,

to make sure things run properly.

And you might say, well, look, who doesn't end up doing stuff at work that isn't

in their job description? It's called mucking in. Everyone does it. Well, maybe not everyone.

Ruchika recently wrote an article for the Harvard Business Review called Women of Color get

asked to do more office housework. Here's how they can say no.

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