In 2015, while working as a features writer for The Guardian in New York City, Rose wrote a widely-circulated article on emotional labor, which radically changed her way of understanding how power, gender and race affect the most intimate ways in which people relate to one another. Her research on emotional labor in the eight years since — as an invisible, devalued, feminized and yet essential form of work — has sought to drastically reframe our view of women, work and the nature of persistent inequality. 

In 2013, she graduated with a master’s degree in Human Rights from Columbia University, where she focused on social and economic rights violations in the United States. 

Rose’s first book, Emotional Labor, is out now.

Dr. Kate and Rose talk about:

• Women are expected to play an impossible game: show compassion and submission while being assertive and confident

• How women have to put feelings aside in order to make others’ feel more comfortable. 

• How this is expected behavior, and raises heads if not acted out

• Emotional labor is uncompensated work to make others’ feel better.

• The book is not just about white women and not just heterosexual dynamics.

• Our society does not value Emotional Labor.

• How can we change the dynamics of Emotional Labor so that is more equal and works in a way to better society?

Listen to the conversation as Rose and Dr. Kate uncover the insidious prevalence of this, and all it effects, while bringing to light ways to possibly fix this into creating a better society.

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