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Quiet Quitting, Hustle Culture and Women’s Health
Why has an industry has sprung up telling us how to “hustle harder”?
Look closely at the people telling you to “be productive” on the internet and you will see a lot of gurus are not selling productivity at all, but a cult of personality. The focus on “killing it” in your career or beating a personal best at the gym conveniently omits the fact that someone needs to pay the bills, cook, take the bins out and occasionally call their mother.
Something strange seems to have happened to the definition of equality for women. We’re expected to do everything a man does in the workplace, for less pay, then go home to cook like Nigella and scrub as enthusiastically as Mrs. Hinch — all whilst maintaining the physique of a love islander. Yet, an industry has sprung up telling us how to “hustle harder”?
It’s time to fight back against these ridiculous expectations. As Anne-Laure Le Cunff says, turning stressful and unpleasant necessities for many, such as waking up at 4am, into “toxic productivity” is destructive. The next time someone asks you to do “one little thing” for them, bear these 5 concepts in mind.
1. Women are time starved
We get roughly 4,000 weeks on this earth. How do you want to spend them?
