02/04/2026
Burnout isn’t an accident. And for many women, it isn’t just about work.
In this piece for , organisational psychologist and author writes about burnout as the cost of bad work design.
Not bad time management.
Not a failure to be resilient enough.
Not something that can be solved with a yoga app and a lunchtime webinar.
As Dr Kat writes, to talk about burnout in women we need to talk about total load — not just workload.
The paid work.
The unpaid care.
The domestic admin.
The emotional labour.
The mental tabs left open all day, every day.
When work is designed as though people have endless capacity, and women are still carrying more of the invisible load at home, burnout stops looking like an individual issue and starts looking exactly like what it is: a systems issue.
This piece gets into the real drivers — overload, low control, poor recovery, impossible standards — and why fixing burnout means fixing work itself.
A sharp and necessary read from Dr Kat Page.
Read via the link in bio / stories.