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Yes. Women are expected to take on so much. Mental load at home and at work. Plan, organize, remind, coordinate, take notes, etc.
Are you a mom? I am just guessing based on your post. As a woman without kids, I stick up for moms and agree you 💯 will experience more burnout.
Exactly! No way I’m signing up for that second job. The only people I’ll caretake for are my parents when they’re older.
Yes!!!!
I can absolutely see how that would be possible. Women are usually the primary caretakers in the home. So even after working all day, we go home and don't get to rest.
Absolutely. I think more is expected of us.
I was thinking about this the other day only. It relates to burnout at work quite as much. Women are expected to juggle more roles than men are and somehow switch between them at the drop of a hat (pun intended.) be the loving, attentive, dutiful, and still sexually appealing, wife to her husband. Then the kind, patient, yet still tough love just enough mom should that couple have children. Then they throw in business and we have to be intelligent, but not arrogant, confident, but not aggressive, and multi-tasker extraordinaires in the workplace. Men just get to keep the same persona pretty much throughout all their roles regardless of it being the husband, father, or businessman. I think feminism needs a revision because the expectations and end results are way outta proportion here.
(Btw, not what I would declare a feminist exactly, but I do believe there should be more balance in what men and women are expected, “allowed”, and actually do handle on a daily basis. Equality goes both ways though and if anyone wants 50/50 equality for men and women that also means the women have to consider the negative aspects men deal with that women don’t deal with because of those same limiting gender role expectations… I hate the sexism & racism battles, but I’ll just leave that thought there before I digress…)
So women work full time jobs, still carry the majority of household tasks, and probably shoulder a lot of the child rearing burden still… something’s not adding up for me. It’s also exhausting feeling like you have to switch your personality so much to cycle through those roles/jobs.
I think guys just get to coast on autopilot and turn it into a game which is really not helping anyone very much at this point…
If women had any spare time to actually powwow and strategize it’d be a wrap.