Women not only perform tasks but also engage in extensive cognitive labor by anticipating needs, identifying options, making decisions, and ensuring completion. Despite modern expectations of equal division of labor, women often end up managing tasks by constantly needing to tell their male partners what to do, which reflects an underlying societal expectation for women to act as managers of household duties and responsibilities.
Sustaining a relationship has a lot more to do with the division of domestic, emotional and physical labour. A massive component is the mental load - the additional energy that goes into organising, scheduling and managing the daily tasks, chores and things that need to be done whilst also accounting for your partners needs. It's not a secret that women carry a lot more of the mental load than their male counterparts and in this episode we break down exactly why that is, how an unfair division of cognitive labour can lead to resentment and relationship breakdown and how we can address this in our relationships, including our friendships. Listen now!
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