Now that more couples are working from home due to COVID-19, author Brigid Schulte says it's impossible to ignore 'the fact that women bear so much more of the burden of child care and housework.'
If you are walking around like I was, just with this kind of low-level radioactive anger all the time, it really saps your own energy and quality of life.
There's a whole body of research around what's called"the mental load." It's something that women also disproportionately bear. ... It's all of the stuff that you have to keep in your mind. It's just an explosion of details and logistics and planning and organizing and making appointments and remembering the appointments and getting people to the appointments, remembering birthdays, doing the"kinwork" ...
On how the pandemic has forced companies to move to working from home — which previously carried a stigma that hurt working women When remote work or flexible work first came into vogue sort of in the 1990s, it was largely driven by technology, because finally you had the technology where you could do that. But it also came up around the time when it was more women were in the workplace. It was sort of seen as an accommodation for working mothers who just couldn't hack it, couldn't meet those ideal worker norms, couldn't stay late, so they needed this accommodation.
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