A rousing call to arms, filled with surprising insights, that explores how carrying ‘the mental load’-the thankless day-to-day anticipating of needs and solving of problems huge and small-is adversely affecting women’s lives and feeding gender inequality, and displays the way forward for better balancing our lives.

Launching a heated country wide conversation with her viral content ‘Women Aren’t Nags; We’re Simply Given Up’-viewed over two billion times-journalist Gemma Hartley provided voice to the about COMPLETELY FED UP: Psychological Labor, Females, and just how Forward irritation and anger of countless females investing in the hidden, underappreciated, and absolutely draining mental work that includes keeping everyone in their lives comfy and happy. Getting long overdue understanding to the daunting reality of psychological labor inside our lives, Hartley defines the mainly invisible but demanding, time-consuming, and exhausting ‘be concerned work’ that falls disproportionately and unfairly on all women-no matter their economic class or level of education.

Synthesizing a multitude of sources-history, sociology, economics, psychology, philosophy, and anthropology-Hartley makes the invisible visible, unveiling the surprising styles emotional labor will take at work, at home, in relationships, and in parenting. With on-the-ground reporting, identifiable personal tales and interviews from around the world, this feminist manifesto will empower ladies to transform their inner dialogue and give all females the emotional fortitude and courage to require what we most want-without pity, without guilt, and without the emotional baggage.

Beyond naming the problem, Fed Up offers practical information and solutions for teaching both men and women how exactly to wield emotional labor to live more complete and satisfying lives. Hartley helps us to see emotional labor much less a problem to become overcome, but being a genderless virtue we are able to all figure out how to channel in our quest to make a better, even more egalitarian world for ourselves and most importantly, our children. Insightful, unexpected, deeply relatable, and filled with all too familiar moments, this provocative, intelligent, and empathetic guidebook is vital reading for every girl who has had enough with sense fed up.