So the ideal worker norm — this is a term coined by Joan Acker. The ideal worker norm is the idea that adults today should be fully committed and entirely devoted to their jobs and their employers — available at a moment’s notice, unencumbered by external responsibilities that might diminish from their ability to perform their jobs well.

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After a decade of making women believe that if they couldn’t have all of this, they had failed as women, instead of restructuring a labour system designed for men to succeed at their expense, it’s completely normal that there’s curiosity about how the other side lives.