Studies Show That Working Moms Experienced More Exhaustion, Loneliness And Burnout During The Pandemic
While women are making major advancements in their careers and corporate fields, we still are yet to reach true equality. In many cases, women are still expected to do household chores, take care of their children and husbands etc. This means that working women have more on their plates and more work pressure as compared to men. A study said women have been experiencing an exhaustion gap along with the gender pay gap.
The study is a collaboration between Berlin Cameron, Eve Rodsky’s Fair Play and Kantar and surveyed over 1000 employees in the U.S. and U.K. where they found that about 68% of U.S. women experienced burn out. Compared to this, only 50% of men experienced the same.
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During the pandemic, more women experienced burnt out as compared to to men. Women felt more exhausted and less motivated as compared to men. Moreover, twice the number of women felt lonely during the pandemic. Jennifer DaSilva, who is the President of Berlin Cameron said that she wanted to normalise women feeling this way and wanted to show the women that they can be motivated again.
A study by McKinsey and Lean In shows that women have experienced higher levels of burnout. Moreover, it highlights that the burnout gap between men and women have doubled over the last year.
The study also claims that working moms are more likely to experience burnout. A separate study also found that working moms are 28% more likely to experience burnout as compared to working dads. The analysis gauged 2.35 million burnout cases amongst women due to the disproportionate childcare needs when kids were attending school from home.
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The study also found a gender gap when it comes to the division of labour at home. When asked what their partner could do to help with the stress, the most common response for women was “help around the house more,” whereas men’s most common answer was “Nothing, I’m happy with the way things are,” according to Forbes.
Researchers had tracked thousands of working men and women to understand the cause of burnouts. For women, it was the conflicts between family and work life. Moreover, women are more likely to experience burnout due to boredom caused by being underutilised at their jobs. Women are less likely to hold management positions and be given promotions. This results in overqualified female workers being stuck in positions that do not utilise all of their skills leaving them bored and burnout. However female employees can help with the reduction of stress of their colleagues. “Women are caught in the ultimate burnout Catch-22: They suffer it more and also do more to combat it,” said the McKinsey study researchers. However, women are more likely to increase their own stress levels by doing so.
