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How to stop doing everyone else’s work

The Invisible Load: How Women Became the World’s Default Doers

Jan 20, 2025
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Busyness is the new pandemic, one spread by women who take on too much work. Too much of other people’s work, that is. We wind up overloaded for many reasons (‘no’ can be the hardest word), but this particular trap is defaulting to doing.

“I had to work late last night doing something INSERT NAME was meant to do”.

Sound familiar? We often hear this compla…

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