Women are “digen” from overload: That's why their brain tires faster than that of men

Overloading from the constant flow of information and digital interactions is a phenomenon that significantly affects women more than men

Sixty-four seconds. It takes so little of our brain to get our concentration back every time we get a call. According to experts, these small micro-repressions <x0 use” an incredible amount of time, on average, half the day's work a week. We are overloaded with information, bombarded by messages and under constant pressure to respond immediately, whether emails, messages or reports.

This digital overload, where we're immersed in an endless stream of clicks, immediate decisions, checks, updates and responses “as soon as we're in an endless stream of clicks, hits women more than men.

Digital load of women most heavily charged

Studies show that within the family, women still carry the largest load of tasks involving online activities: from their parents ' groups in the Whatsapp, the co-ordination of children's agendas, online research for school activities, to the management of times, trips, and family expenses.

While men are taking part in parenting, society continues to view women as the main organizers. This creates a double mental burden: a combination of cognitive work (planning, memory, coordination) and emotional coordination (care, responsibility, continued availability).

What is often ignored is that technology amplifies this load. Women use digital tools at work day, but even after. They are expected to manage more housework, more presence in parenting and, in parallel, to be professionally accessible, the Telegraph broadcast.

According to recent research by “Pew Research Center” and “Harvard Business Review”, this added overload causes:

The Greatest Mental Fatigue
Higher Sensitive to Stress
Challenges in Digital secession
Feeling fault when they do not respond immediately
Add social pressure sense to “for balance”

Therefore, digital overload is not only a matter of technology but also a gender issue.

How do you share digital cargo equal?

More is needed than simply sharing visible tasks. Even the invisible part of the job, that digital, needs to be divided clearly:

Online tasks sharing for children
School Email Coordinate
Organizing out - of - date activities
Following reports on Whatsapp
Online research (Mjek, while travel)
Electronic Family Planning

These are time - consuming tasks, memory, concentration, and responsibility, so they should be distributed just as any job in the family.

Gender equality experts suggest <x0nd division of invisible loads”, where each member of the family takes on part of digital work, so that women do not remain the only ones that keep the entire “information generation”./Periscopi/