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Dissecting Downtime: The Impact of Gender on Rest

Your Brain at Work

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The Effect of Emotional Labor on Downtime

If a woman's work is also the emotional labor of taking care then there's always something to do. Women are more likely to suppress this network and jump out and attend to those things on the outside while men have an easier time staying in it essentially or engaging in this network longer. Maybe this is what's leading to those numbers that we're seeing the higher rates of burnout and things like that they're just not getting enough of the downtime.

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