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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Dividing chores among your kids in an organized and effective fashion is important for their development and important for your sanity as a parent.
When it comes to household responsibilities, women perform far more cognitive and emotional labour than men. Why is this, and is there anything we can do about it?
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Emotional labor is the invisible work in families, disproportionately by moms.
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Calling holiday planning “emotional labor” can be counterproductive to recognizing housework as labor.
If the burden of domestic responsibilities falls squarely on your shoulders, get inspired by how this writer learned to stop taking on all the emotional labor in her marriage.
Emotional labor is a paid chore, not a household chore.
Men are more likely than ever to embrace the idea of gender equality, but when it comes to the home front, traditional values dominate.
When Americans think about fixing gender equality, they tend to focus on the workplace. But gender equality for women still lags in another realm: their own houses.
My husband is a smart, caring guy. So why was it so hard for him to understand and appreciate how much extra work I was doing to benefit our family and the home—and the eventual burnout effect it was likely to have on me?
It wasn’t a big deal to me when I was married. But it was a big deal to her.
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