To First Nations women, ‘care’ is more broad and all-encompassing than traditional definitions. We need a new approach to capturing, and appreciating, their work, paid and unpaid.
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The emotional realities experienced by women coaches are adversely impacting their ability to thrive in a culture that doesn’t recognize or support key parts of their work.
Alva Gotby’s book encourages women to refuse the labour of care – and even suggests abolishing the nuclear family.
Disturbed sleep can worsen depressive symptoms of health care workers whose jobs come with high levels of emotional labor and work-family conflict.
Nurses describe what it is like to work on the NHS frontline – and what the cost is to them.
Women have to take on more unpaid labour – and manage their emotional response to this extra work.
It’s important that employers and employees understand sympathy, empathy and compassion, and consider these emotions’ roles in both job performance and employee relations.
We often talk about ‘emotional labour’ as performed by those who take on the emotional workload within families or relationships. But the term has a specific meaning – and that’s not what it is.
New research shines light on what is driving hospitality workers – like waiters and hotel workers – to abandon the industry as part of the ‘great resignation.’
Many women use closed Facebook groups as an outlet for their fears and frustrations and stresses with life during a pandemic. But running these groups takes a lot of work, and comes with legal risks.
New research shows politicians experience high levels of emotional labour, which not only falls more heavily on women but also impacts their mental wellbeing.
A dream teaching job with seemingly great perks may not be worth it when turbulence creates crushing heartache for educators.
To protect employees from burnout, organizations should recognize which emotions are expected to be managed as a part of the job, and what situations generate emotional labour.
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Director, Field Experience (Community-Based), Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Professor of Work and Organisation, Brunel University London
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Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Kent
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Professor of Work and Organisation, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor in Social Sciences, University of Canberra
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Director of Her Story, project coordinator at The Equality Institute, lead on U Right Sis? project, Indigenous Knowledge
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Associate Professor, CAEPR, Australian National University
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Managing Director, Her Story Consulting & Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University
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Associate professor, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Political Behaviour, University of Sheffield
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Lecturer, CQUniversity Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, City, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Economics, City, University of London
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ARC DECRA Research Fellow, University of Sydney
