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3 Tips to Avoid Fighting with Your Partner Over Household Chores

2018

A new study by Harvard Business School says that 25% of people who get divorced cite “housework disagreements” as the primary reason they split up! So we spoke with Daniel Carlson, a professor of consumer and family studies, who showed us how to negotiate those chores and avoid fighting.

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What is Emotional Labor? 7 Steps to Sharing the Burden in Marriage

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.

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Washington State’s Failure to Mandate Paid Parental Leave Hurts Gender Equity, Parents, and Kids.

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‘Motherhood Penalty’ in Worse Pay at Work

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What Everyone’s Calling ‘Emotional Labor’ Is Actually Just Labor

Calling holiday planning “emotional labor” can be counterproductive to recognizing housework as labor.

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How to Talk to Your Boss About Emotional Labor

Effective strategies for discussing the invisible load you’re shouldering in the workplace.

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The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling

In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotion work," just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting.

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Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have too Much to Do (and More Life to Live)

Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way. It started with the Sh*t I Do List.

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“I Am a Woman and I Am Fast”: What Caster Semenya’s Story Says about Gender and Race in Sports

The constant scrutiny into the runner’s medical history reveals what happens to women who don’t conform to stereotypes.

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Household Labor