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Emotional Labor Is a Store Clerk Confronting a Maskless Customer

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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The Hidden Load: How ‘Thinking of Everything’ Holds Mums Back

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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Melissa Hogenboom
2021
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Why Sharing “Emotional Labor” Is the Best Mother’s Day Gift

Emotional labor is the invisible work in families, disproportionately by moms.

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Alexandra Sacks
2019
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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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Marie Solis
2019
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4 Signs You’re Carrying the Emotional Labor in Relationships

Being in any type of relationship involves some level of emotional commitment, which can, at times, feel draining. But, if you carry a disproportionately large load of the emotional labor in relationships, that level of drain is likely high and potentially unsustainable.

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Korin Miller
2021
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Please Stop Calling Everything that Frustrates You Emotional Labor

In our rush to bring greater awareness to gender frustrations that we’re just beginning to talk about publicly, we should remember that not all kinds of gender and relationship problems are in fact, emotional labor.

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Haley Swenson
2017
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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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Julie Compton
2018
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How to Get Your Partner to Take on More Emotional Labor

You can take concrete steps to more equitably divide emotional labor with your partner — starting with talking openly about the dynamic.

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Britni de la Cretaz
2020
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“Emotional Labor” Is Not What You Think It Is

The phrase “emotional labor” . . . refers to “a situation where the way a person manages his or her emotions is regulated by a work-related entity in order to shape the state of mind of another individual, such as a customer.”

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Emma Specter
2019
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‘Women Are Just Better at this Stuff’: Is Emotional Labor Feminism’s Next Frontier?

From remembering birthdays to offering service with a smile, life has a layer of daily responsibility that is hardly discussed—one which falls disproportionately on women. Finally confronting it could be a revolutionary step.

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Rose Hackman
2015
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Women Aren't Nags—We're Just Fed Up

Emotional labor is the unpaid job men still don't understand.

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Gemma Hartley
2017
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