For those who celebrate Christmas, this time of year is sold as being all about togetherness, joy, gift-giving, and family—it’s the most wonderful time of the year, after all.
While we all love opening pressies and sitting down to a Christmas feast, there aren’t magical elves running around organising everything—it usually falls on the shoulders of women.
Ask any woman in your life how long they’ve been thinking about all the things that have to be organised in the lead-up to the festive season; plenty will tell you it’s been bubbling away in the back of their minds for months.
On this throwback episode of The Briefing, hosts Sacha Barbour Gatt and Antoinette Lattouf are asking: why are women carrying most of the mental and physical load at Christmas?