Career Women and Double Burden in Feminist Sociological Perspective Today
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career women, double burden, unpaid care, mental load, emotional labor, gender norms, feminist sociologyAbstrak
This article offers a normative account of career women facing a double burden through feminist sociology. It explains how gendered expectations attach domestic responsibility to women while professional institutions reward an ideal worker model built on unlimited availability. The double burden is framed as a structural outcome of unequal distribution of unpaid care work, mental load, and emotional labor across household relations. The discussion highlights how moral scrutiny of motherhood creates a recurring legitimacy test, where women must prove professional competence while maintaining domestic respectability. Workplace cultures that prize visibility, rapid responsiveness, and after hours networking can magnify inequality when caregiving remains feminized. The article also notes how narratives of personal choice and symbolic praise may obscure injustice by relocating structural issues into individual coping. A conceptual framework is proposed around three domains: work distribution, recognition of care, and legitimacy within both household and workplace. The central claim is that gender justice requires shared responsibility for care and institutional norms that respect limits, dignity, and voice in everyday negotiations.
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