Allison Daminger, author of WHAT'S ON HER MIND - a Boswell event

Boswell Book Company presents an evening with Allison Daminger, who visits with her new book What's On Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life. This event is cosponsored by REDgen.

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Mothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spending roughly twice as many hours on family labor as men. But what about the gendered differences in the ways women and men think? What's on Her Mind provides an illuminating look at the cognitive labor that families depend on and reveals why this essential aspect of family life is disproportionately handled by women--even in couples that aspire to practice equality.

“What’s on Allison Daminger’s mind? It’s cognitive labor, her term for a vital form of housework we all do but hadn’t named until this pathbreaking work. Through captivating research with diverse couples, Daminger shows that gender equality will remain elusive until we attend to mind use in housework. Already it feels like a classic.”—Caitlyn Collins, author of Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving

Allison Daminger is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work has been featured in leading publications such as the New York Times, the Guardian, Psychology Today, and the Atlantic.

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