: the badass woman who, in contrast to so many before her, can choose to prioritize her career over everything else, bursting through glass ceilings and clawing her way to executive roles, all without giving up her femininity. She’s a superwoman who “has it all,” juggling a high-powered career and a family, all while wearing aand painfully high heels.
So, enter the rise of a new approach to work-life balance weighted distinctly more toward life than work and eschews hustle culture in favor of good mental and physical health habits. A decade afternow contain much more nuanced takes on corporate culture. There's especially a focus on strategies for and stories of women in the workforce.
In the same vein as Tokumitsu’s entry in the genre, Jaffe’s 2021 book shares the stories of people working in a broad range of industries to further expose how encouragement to “do what you love” ultimately only results in exploitation and exhaustion, rather than any real personal fulfillment. Once we accept this truth, she writes, we can begin to reject it: working less, being compensated fairly, and recentering our lives around the things that bring us true joy.