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Moms Are Burned-out: What Can We Do to Ease the Burden?

By John Duffy — 2021

The household tasks taken over by most moms—including the often invisible emotional work—have increased exponentially.

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The Disguises We Wear Every Day

Hiding your feelings can be freeing. But eventually you have to take off the mask.

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Arthur C. Brooks
2021
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4 Signs You’re Carrying the Emotional Labor in Relationships

Being in any type of relationship involves some level of emotional commitment, which can, at times, feel draining. But, if you carry a disproportionately large load of the emotional labor in relationships, that level of drain is likely high and potentially unsustainable.

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Korin Miller
2021
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Please Stop Calling Everything that Frustrates You Emotional Labor

In our rush to bring greater awareness to gender frustrations that we’re just beginning to talk about publicly, we should remember that not all kinds of gender and relationship problems are in fact, emotional labor.

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Haley Swenson
2017
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Emotional Labor Is a Store Clerk Confronting a Maskless Customer

The preeminent sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild discusses the control over one’s feelings needed to go to work every day during a pandemic.

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Gary Stix
2020
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How to Get Your Partner to Take on More Emotional Labor

You can take concrete steps to more equitably divide emotional labor with your partner — starting with talking openly about the dynamic.

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Britni de la Cretaz
2020
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“Emotional Labor” Is Not What You Think It Is

The phrase “emotional labor” . . . refers to “a situation where the way a person manages his or her emotions is regulated by a work-related entity in order to shape the state of mind of another individual, such as a customer.”

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Emma Specter
2019
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‘Women Are Just Better at this Stuff’: Is Emotional Labor Feminism’s Next Frontier?

From remembering birthdays to offering service with a smile, life has a layer of daily responsibility that is hardly discussed—one which falls disproportionately on women. Finally confronting it could be a revolutionary step.

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Rose Hackman
2015
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Women Aren't Nags—We're Just Fed Up

Emotional labor is the unpaid job men still don't understand.

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Gemma Hartley
2017
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