Women want ‘lazy girl jobs’ because they're significantly more burned out than men, Gallup finds

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Women pursuing “lazy girl jobs”—one with minimal stress and decent pay—are anything but lazy. Rather than shirking hard work, new research has found that they are actually just trying to escape burnout. 

In fact, while men have become less burned out as bosses force workers to return to pre-pandemic norms, women are still feeling drained.