By Gary Stix — 2020
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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CLEAR ALL
Emotional labor is a paid chore, not a household chore.
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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.
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.