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Women Deserve a Mental Offload

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Women tend to disproportionately bear the weight of the mental load.

That translates into a “second shift” at home: more hours spent on parenting, housework, emotional caretaking, and more.

When it comes to managing that mental load, so often the advice to women is one of two things:

Delegate it. Or lower your standards.

And while there’s nothing wrong with either of those approaches, that’s not the only way to “offload” tasks.

I get on my soapbox a little bit this week, to talk about how the mental load ends up pigeon-holing women, the sexist taxes that (too often) go unchallenged, and why we deserve better.

It’s time to talk about what it really means to offload the mental load, and how we start to make that happen.

What You'll Learn:

  • Why going part-time isn’t your only option for being a “good mom” in the paid workforce

  • The unchallenged assumptions that we need to rethink around the mental load of parenting.

  • The “isn’t that cute” version of women’s empowerment

  • The 3 sexist taxes that fall on you if you’re socialized as a woman

To learn more, visit The Mental Offload.

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Women tend to disproportionately bear the weight of the mental load.

That translates into a “second shift” at home: more hours spent on parenting, housework, emotional caretaking, and more.

When it comes to managing that mental load, so often the advice to women is one of two things:

Delegate it. Or lower your standards.

And while there’s nothing wrong with either of those approaches, that’s not the only way to “offload” tasks.

I get on my soapbox a little bit this week, to talk about how the mental load ends up pigeon-holing women, the sexist taxes that (too often) go unchallenged, and why we deserve better.

It’s time to talk about what it really means to offload the mental load, and how we start to make that happen.

What You'll Learn:

  • Why going part-time isn’t your only option for being a “good mom” in the paid workforce

  • The unchallenged assumptions that we need to rethink around the mental load of parenting.

  • The “isn’t that cute” version of women’s empowerment

  • The 3 sexist taxes that fall on you if you’re socialized as a woman

To learn more, visit The Mental Offload.

  continue reading

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