The Double Burden of Work

You know when we talked about how more women must join the workforce, we assumed that there'd be a transition from housewife to working woman for her. But instead, what's happening now is that women have increased their efficiency- are waking up earlier, planning days, finishing their work faster, multitasking during meetings in wfh,and managing both office work and household work and are being applauded for it. The superwoman. Why do we always romanticize a woman's suffering? And why are our new generation believing-in-equality men being so happy about 'helping' their wives?

When you talk about equality in work, you don't just talk about physical work. You need to free women from the responsibility of that work. When a man sits for work, he sits with an awareness that that's his only responsibility for the day. But a working woman functions with multiple windows running in the back of her mind. She knows that her partner believes in equality and will 'help' her so she transfers the work. But in her subconscious it's still her responsibility and the burden sustains. Modern age men are definitely trying to change the norms but most have no clue how to do it. You need to free your partner from the psychological burden of the household work as well. Split responsibilities clearly. Make your zones. Cooking is my work but cleaning the dishes is yours-doesn't work. Kitchen is a zone and in the end it comes down to one person's psychological burden. One washes the clothes, the other dries them doesn't work either. These are short term solutions that only make you feel good. Most importantly, don't 'help' your partner's, divide responsibilities equally- both physically and psychologically.