Women Burdened by Invisible Work
“Most of the couples that I spoke with wanted to distance themselves from old-school gender norms, and yet very few were able to achieve balance when it came to the division of this mental work.”
— Dr. Allison Daminger
If you’ve ever lain awake mentally running through tomorrow’s logistics while your partner sleeps soundly beside you, this episode is for you. Dr. Allison Daminger, sociologist and author of What’s on Her Mind?, has spent nearly a decade studying something most families feel but few can name: the invisible cognitive labor that keeps a household running. It’s not the cooking or…
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