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‘Lazy-girl jobs’ creator responds to criticisms of elitism: These jobs are ‘not a privilege of the middle class.’

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Last updated: 2023/08/14 at 4:40 PM
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“Lazy-girl jobs are not a privilege of the middle class. Work-life balance is common in higher-earning economic classes. Work means many different things to different tax brackets.”

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Criticisms of ‘lazy-girl job’Gender gap in pay and conditionsThe female worker revolution 

Those are the words of Gabrielle Judge, the 20-something TikTok influencer who coined the latest viral workplace catchphrase, “lazy-girl jobs.”

Judge, who has nearly 150,000 followers on TikTok, responded to criticisms on the platform that the term is portrays young women in a negative light and reeks of elitism.

“I just got asked in this, like, ‘gotcha’ journalism way if I feel ‘lazy-girl jobs’ are a privilege of the middle class, which is the most ignorant thing I’ve ever heard,” Judge said.

“What is a ‘lazy-girl job’? It’s work-life balance — being a bit more discerning about, hey, where is my time going, and why am I working so hard for nothing in return?” she added.

Criticisms of ‘lazy-girl job’

#lazygirljob has over 21 million views on TikTok and features videos from mostly young women talking about their take on hustle culture, including a day in the life of a data analyst.

Serena Smith, a writer at Dazed.com, wrote that the idea of lazy-girl jobs is nothing radical. Instead, she said, it’s just a romanticization of the status quo and the drudgery of work. 

“Lazy girl jobs are roles which are undemanding and stress-free, where you’re allowed to take as many breaks as you want and there’s no pressure to work overtime,” she wrote. 

Another writer, Hailey Bouche, wrote on the TheEveryGirl.com that she has a problem with the lazy-girl job hashtag, saying such jobs should not be considered luxuries.

“We all deserve jobs that give us access to the benefits, flexibility, and salary,” she wrote, “and having or wanting a job that allows us all of those things does not make us lazy.”

Gender gap in pay and conditions

Whether you like it or loathe it, the lazy-girl job hashtag, by Judge’s own definition, is a call to action to empower women to take control of their work lives and to address the gender power imbalance in the workplace.

It’s an important, if long and steep, mountain to climb. The International Labor Organization, for example, says most unpaid care work around the world is still carried out by women.

Millions of manufacturing and service jobs — particularly in education, retail, health care and restaurants — largely require people to show up in person.

The wage gap between men and women in the U.S., meanwhile, has barely changed over the last two decades: Women now earn around 84 cents on the dollar compared with men.

Women earned 65 cents for every dollar earned by men in 1982. That gender pay gap closed by 14 percentage points from 1982 to 2002 — it but has remained virtually unchanged in the years since.

“‘I just got asked in this, like, “gotcha” journalism way if I feel “lazy-girl jobs” are a privilege of the middle class, which is the most ignorant thing I’ve ever heard.’”


— Gabrielle Judge, who coined #lazygirljobs

“Mothers ages 25 to 44 are less likely to be in the labor force than women of the same age who do not have children at home,” according to the Pew Research Center, a think tank based in Washington, D.C.

“Much of the gender pay gap has been explained by measurable factors such as educational attainment, occupational segregation and work experience,” Pew said, and any narrowing of the gap is largely due to gains women made in those areas.

The National Women’s Law Center says that women earning 84 cents on the dollar compared with men means they make $9,954 less per year in median earnings. That equates to two months of child care ($1,883), three months of rent ($3,573) and health-insurance premiums ($1,544), two months of student-loan payments ($544) and six tanks of gas ($316).

The female worker revolution 

On Medium, writer Vanessa Torre said “this was not the revolution we’re looking for” and called for caution before adopting terms like lazy-girl job, which she called derogatory. 

“The last thing women need right now is false empowerment cloaked in a cute saying destined to be emblazoned on dozens of shirts in Etsy shops,” she wrote.

“In short, adding a gender tag to any part of women’s work experience is degrading and sets women back more than it empowers them,” Torre added.

On TikTok, Judge said executives make work fit around their lives, “not the other way around, so that’s a crazy thing to say that it’s a privilege to have work-life balance for the middle class.”

What’s more, she said it’s a direct result of pandemic-era remote work. “Now employers are, like, ‘Hey come back into the office,’ and we are, like, ‘Heck, no way,’” Judge added.

Related: There’s a new star of the U.S. economy this summer: women. ‘Is this how men have always felt?’

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