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Cognitive labour significantly impacts women’s workplace experiences and career outcomes, which ultimately undermines gender equity. (Unsplash+)

All women — not just mothers — could benefit from more workplace flexibility

New research highlights that the career outcomes of both women with and without children are negatively impacted by engaging in unpaid labour.
Moms more often make the list, even when dads help cross things off it. Maskot/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Moms think more about household chores − and this cognitive burden hurts their mental health

Moms execute more household tasks. But they’re also family executives, doing more of the thinking ahead and assigning that are part of all those chores – bad news for their mental health.

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