Gender and Invisible Work

The original idea of leaning in urged women not to self-limit their ambition because of stereotypes about women being especially caring and communal. A healthier interpretation of leaning in combines ambition with self-care and fairer distribution of unrewarded work. Office housework is often unnoticed, unrewarded, expected, and disproportionately imposed on women. Women are described as more prone to workplace burnout than men partly because they bear more office housework.