On n’avance pas, et ce n’est pas de notre faute. From Another Conflict Theorist:
[T]here exists a wealth of information that examines race and gender disparities in the workplace and how they are maintained. Recently, I read a fantastic article about emotional labor and sex segregation entitled, “Women’s Job, Men’s Jobs.” The authors of the piece, Mary Guy and Meredith Newman, examine what exactly it is about women’s jobs that causes them to pay less. They conclude that a large part of women’s work has to do with the application of emotional labor – labor based on those attributes that women are socialized to develop and administer that allow the work place to function more smoothly but are rarely, if ever, monetarily compensated. Guy and Newman argue that emotional labor helps explain both job segregation based on gender and the gender wage gap. Similarly, in his fantastic book, Gender and Racial Inequality at Work, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey provides empirical evidence about workplace segregation and describes how jobs are “sorted” out based on race.
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Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Yeah I read this. My own experience has been one of being pushed towards doing emotional work and finding that I am about as unsuited to that as living on Mars and breathing ether. The consequence of this personal discovery of unsuitability has, in turn, led to more punishing of various sporadic sorts, and to my ultimate conclusion that people are simply unable to meet me on the rational ground that I am talking from.