Women's Emotional Labor in Higher Ed and the COVID‐19 Crisis

Countless studies have found that women do more unpaid labor than men, both within the workplace and at home. Gemma Hartley, author of Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward (2018), recently defined “emotional labor” in an interview with Forbes as “the unpaid, often unnoticed labor that goes into keeping everyone around you comfortable and happy. It's emotion management and life management combined.” She continued that this includes...