“…Indeed, the role of the politician is a particularly demanding and stressful public-facing role that when combined with other roles such as parent, daughter or spouse, can foster inter-role conflict, stress and burnout (Mitchell, 1958; Poms et al, 2016). What is more, women politicians are often held to different standards around their public-facing roles as mother, wife and politician than their men counterparts (Klammer and Klenner, 2004: 184; Carson et al, 2019) and are more likely to not enter or to leave politics in response to these challenges (Stalsburg and Kleinberg, 2016; Ransford and Thomson, 2011). Women politicians in local government were more likely than their men counterparts to sacrifice full-time work because the demands of their family and political career were in conflict, thus intensifying economic inequality in politics between the genders (Carson et al, 2021).…”