New UNIC-Athens study shows Europe’s women bear higher emotional labour burden at work

A landmark study of nearly 44,000 workers across 35 European countries has uncovered stark gender inequalities in the emotional demands of the workplace, and mapped the pathways through which those demands erode mental health. Published in Social Science & Medicine, one of the world’s leading social science and public health journals, the research by Prof. Dr Nikolaos Antonakakis of the University of Nicosia, UNIC Athens provides some of the strongest evidence to date that emotional labour...