In intimate relationships, young women are taking on a disproportionate load of invisible emotional labor, often supporting men through intense feelings of failure and isolation from friends. Many men described feeling “weird or like a waste of time” when opening up to male friends, instead reserving vulnerability for their relationships with... See more

“But I will never know how to enter his study dressed like that: enter on a wave of perfume, face powdered, carrying a cup of tea. She enters like a woman, while I work beside him like a comrade. He doesn’t even notice that he’s no longer alone when I enter: I’m with him, on the men’s side.” Silvia was surprised, listening to Signora Dora speak to

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Indeed, the literature on love and happiness at work is remarkable for its insistence on the identity of interests that will be generated, that both employers and employees will profit equally from its recipes for emotional reform and affective discipline. In what is perhaps a way to make good on the claim about mutual advantage, the health benefit... See more