Australian data shows women are still more burnt out than men by the pandemic’s “new normal”, but some experts have noticed fathers who stepped up at home are also feeling the strain.
Australian women are feeling more burnt out and more likely to be thinking about leaving their jobs than their global peers.
Thirty-nine per cent of Australian women feel pandemic burnout may be hampering their career progression. Fathers who took on more care and home duties in the last two and a half years, and stuck with it, are also feeling professional and personal pain.Nisha Khot is used to carrying a decent load. As a hospital clinical director, obstetrician and mother of two, she was accustomed to the work-family juggle well before the pandemic.
She did her best to support friends and colleagues doing it tough in 2020 – “anything I could do to help” – but by the time Victoria’s second long lockdown landed this time last year, Khot found she was running on empty.Nisha Khot observes women feeling burnt out by the extra burdens of pandemic life around her, and experienced the ‘gender burnout gap’ herself.
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