By Adia Harvey Wingfield — 2016
When workers’ emotions deviate from what’s expected of their gender, they are often left to process the backlash on their own.
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Women with disabilities are often doubly penalized—for being women and for being disabled.
Sadness is a central part of our lives, yet it’s typically ignored at work, hurting employees and managers alike.
Individuals with disabilities frequently encounter workplace discrimination, bias, exclusion, and career plateaus—meaning their employers lose out on enormous innovation and talent potential.
Much like the struggle to recognize the economic contributions of childcare for stay-at-home parents, there could be a similar gap in the working world. The definition of emotional labor being used here is that of unpaid, invisible work.
We hear a lot about the struggles of working women and the notion that we can create some semblance of order between managing responsibilities at home and at work. It’s the elusive work/life balance every working woman longs to achieve.
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COVID-19 is hard on women because the U.S. economy is hard on women, and this virus excels at taking existing tensions and ratcheting them up.
“The research is pretty clear that surface acting is almost always bad for you.”
All those little details, necessary but distinctly un-flashy, are sometimes referred to as “emotional labor.” In the workplace, that labor may include booking a room for a meeting, reserving an event space, or keeping morale going with a Secret Santa exchange.
It could be dragging down your job performance and psychological health.
Effective strategies for discussing the invisible load you’re shouldering in the workplace.