Zeit Online 03/26

Editorial illustration for the ZEIT Online article ‘Women suffer from being their partners' closest confidantes’, on how women’s emotional labor positively shapes their partners’ social lives. Psychologist Angelica Ferrara researches male friendships and finds that men are lonelier than ever before. For many of them, she says, their partner is their only truly meaningful social relationship. As a result, women have a new job: ‘mankeeping’.