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“Mental load” and “emotional labor” are terms that have come into widespread use—and often gone viral—in discussions of gendered divisions of household labor.
The Gendered Labor of Noticing and Anticipating - JSTOR Daily Laura Clawson 2025
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(fr. WordSpy, noun) Jobs in which employees are required to express false or exaggerated emotions; the effort of expressing those emotions.
May 15, 2008