{"id":46441,"date":"2021-03-07T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=46441"},"modified":"2025-07-02T04:09:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:09:42","slug":"working-less-to-build-a-feminist-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/story\/46441\/working-less-to-build-a-feminist-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Working less to build a feminist future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Fernanda Mour\u00e3o and her daughter Maria Flor take part in a community event featuring activist mothers in the suburbs of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. The event, ‘Community Coffee and Prose: Motherhood and Healthy Feeding,’ was part of a series of events about social entrepreneurship, poison-free food, and rightful access to the city and health. Photo credit: Lena Silva\/Greenpeace<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

Months into the pandemic, physically and emotionally exhausted from trying to run an organization while taking care of a toddler full-time, there was one topic that really got to me: self-care. It’s hard to describe the feeling I would get when someone would tell me that I should just go for a walk, get some more sleep, take some time ‘just for me’. How such kind, well-intentioned words could generate such a feeling of rage, because of the complete lack of understanding they exposed. And I know it’s not just me — the New York Times recently created a call-in line specifically so that working moms could scream into the phone<\/a>. Trust me: if we could just chill out a bit, we would. The system and culture we live in just don\u2019t allow it. <\/p>\n\n

Like so many other issues, the pandemic didn\u2019t create the problem, but it\u2019s shone a spotlight by bringing it to such extremes. As Pooja Lakshmin explains<\/a>, part of what\u2019s been revealed is a societal betrayal of working moms<\/strong>: \u201cWhile burnout places the blame (and thus the responsibility) on the individual and tells working moms they aren\u2019t resilient enough, betrayal points directly to the broken structures around them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

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