Shared Responsibility & Mental Overload

Do You Care?

Why it Matters

Women carry the bulk of invisible labor in the home and the workplace; scheduling, remembering, anticipating, and managing everyone else’s needs. This mental overload erodes well-being, increases burnout, and limits women’s capacity for personal or professional advancement.

Why Junior League is uniquely positioned:

Junior League members live this reality. They are professionals, caregivers, community leaders and volunteers. Through its training, dialogue and leadership programs, JL can create structured interventions that model and advocate for shared responsibility both internally and externally. It also offers a powerful national platform to normalize conversations that reduce stigma and spark cultural change. JL can own and elevate the discussion around mental overload, educating members and other women’s groups on how/why this matters and how to have the difficult conversations with others about their own mental overload.

Women lifting women, sparking joyful change.

Why it Matters

Women experience aging differently than men, often with greater caregiving responsibilities, increased risk of economic insecurity, and higher rates of social isolation and chronic stress. This demographic is often overlooked in both policy and public conversation.