In professional settings, women take the lion’s share of the social and domestic work: cleaning out the office refrigerator, buying the cake when a coworker has a birthday, and making sure meetings are up-to-date on the company’s communal calendar. In academia, women faculty members are nearly always the people who organize and lead committees, schedule events, and mentor struggling students.5 When men don’t perform their fair share of this work, women tend to pick up the slack. It’s very difficult for most women, who’ve been indoctrinated by the Laziness Lie and decades of living under
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