Our thanks to Nigel for this. He writes:

“And yet another thing to add to the long list of reasons women need so much more help than men, just to turn up and do their job! Hot on the heels of all the campaigning about “menopause” along comes “burnout”. Now the actual figures don’t seem so dramatic as its 2 in 5 women and one in three men who report getting “burnout” over all occupations. However in the overwhelmingly female occupations listed, its higher. Having worked in three of them retail, social care and healthcare I’d suggest this is because these also tend to have a lot of workers not pulling their weight! Burnout could be inevitable if they are busy covering all the other reasons female colleagues can’t concentrate on their work and need “flexibility”, lighter workloads, attention to mental health, assistance with menopause,.. the list goes on. “Your employer may also be able to adjust your workload or provide flexible working and temporary reasonable adjustments” which means of course somebody has to cover the work. Frankly taking all this into account the feminists make a very good case for employers to be careful not to end up with a largely female workforce. Specially those in competitive industries.”

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