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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My question would be why are the women taking on the “mental load and emotional labor” in an office?  What even is that?

In the home I get it, I’m a wife and mother and take that on, because it’s my *family*.  People I love.  But in the office, while it can definitely be stressful at times for me, what I’m doing and the amount of work isn’t any different from my male colleagues.  Are the women just letting the stress get to them more?  Are they unnecessarily getting emotional about duties or coworkers?

Wouldn’t your 90 days off lead you to coming back to the same situation?[/quote]

Yes. Yes it will. When I was going out on maternity leave the 1st time and prepping my transition plan a colleague told me “you think they will solve all these problems and wrap up all these projects while you are out, but 8/10/12/16 weeks and you come back and they are still taking about and spinning wheels on the same things as when you left.”

If you are really burned out, you need to negotiate a leave of absence or find a new job. But if you do a LOA or a sabbatical, take it from my maternity leave experience that you will come back to the same issues and team dynamics you left. A leave is to heal You - your body, your mind. If you want your work culture or dynamics to change, you need to get a new job. [/quote]

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