Lightening the Mental Load That Holds Women Back

Businesses are more successful when they hire women: more collaborative,3 more profitable,4 more inclusive.5 Women are in fact more effective leaders,6 less likely to take unnecessary risks,7 great at multitasking,8 and have higher emotional intelligence9— as the Harvard Business Review put it, “one of the least counter-intuitive findings in the so

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I don’t know one balanced woman. I know a lot of women who are two extra days in a week away from feeling balanced, or one professional housecleaning service away from feeling balanced, or one generous extension on the deadline away from feeling balanced, or three entire days of their children in someone else’s loving and competent care away from f

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‘Well, it’s the usual suspects: Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden. The countries where childcare is properly subsidised, where ring-fenced, properly paid paternity leave means dads are far more likely to take time out to care for their children, and flexible working is the norm for all employees. In these countries, mothers report far higher levels

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