Uncommon Women In English

Uncommon women
Welcome to the exciting intervention program Uncommon Women. It explores how women can improve mental health by loosening the trauma bonds from traditional gender power structures in the workplace.
The intervention program includes:
A digital tool shifting the conception of stress and hurt from a individual flaw to an adequate embodied response to social context
Online group meetings enabling the sharing and learning together with other women
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Women as a shared resource
Uncommon women
Uncommon Women is inspired by the "tragedy of the commons", which theorizes how individuals tend to overexploit shared resources for personal gain.
When individuals fail to take responsibility for collective resources, it leads to negative consequences for everyone.
The "tragedy" lies in the eventual destruction of common resources as a result of short-sighted thinking and self-interest.
A unique perspective
Women tend to dedicate more time and energy to activities that do not benefit their own interests, but rather those around them. Women become 'the common resource' that are expected to take responsibility for and dedicate their time and knowledge for the benefit of all.
We know this because women carry more of the double burden of paid and unpaid work, are overrepresented in supportive positions and roles in the workplace, are expected to be relationally oriented, warm, and caring, and to accept lower pay than men for equivalent work.
Loosening the trauma bonds
Uncommon Women is a workplace study that aims to explore how underlying social power structures between genders are linked to women's job burnout.
The Uncommon Women study looks beyond conventional solutions, dwelving deeper into invisible barriers that prevent women from finding new paths to empowerment and health.
We explore tools and methods to dissolve trauma bonds that have been woven into women's bodies and minds by traditional gender power structures for centuries.
The Intervention Targets Women because Job Burnout Affects Significantly more Working Women.
Traditionally Female-Dominated Professions
Statsistics show that professions with a high degree of social interaction are affected by stress and burnout. Female-dominated care professions are at the top, which highlights connections between gender structures and mental illness/health.
New Female-Dominated Professions
Marketing and Communications, another but more modern and recent profession, has grown to become female-dominated. And statistics show it has the highest number of new sick leaves due to work-related burnout.
Gender Differences in Management
Men who are managers are less likely to be on sick leave than women who are managers. This is likely due to women having lower management grades, more direct reports, and consequently less freedom than men, which points to gendered differences in the conditions for acting as a manager.
Increased Risk for Women with Young Children
Women between 30–39 years old with children under 9 years old run a 41% higher risk of suffering from work-related burnout than men of the same age and situation. This demonstrates the effect of carrying more of the double burden of work, paid and unpaid.
Gender Power Structures Doesn't Develop in a Void
Social Interactions
While working, we construct gender by treating men and women differently. 
As long as we continue going into meetings and conversations without understanding how we perpetuate traditional expectations on men and women, gender power structures will keep its stronghold on workplace culture. 
Communicating and acting against ingrained behavioral patterns is challenging for everyone because established ways of saying and doing are part of a larger whole.
Organizational Allowance
When organizations let men and women face different conditions to perform at work, an informal organization is allowed where formal rules do not apply equally to all. 
Gender power structures obscure how organizations prioritize men for leadership positions, assume men's deeds are more valuable, allow men to take risks, and show mercy to men's shortcomings.
Institutional Betrayal
Gender is embedded in social interactions, normalizing little by litte what it means to be men and a women. 
In the family, neighbourhood, classroom, gym, dorm, workplace, party, etc. Everywhere where people interact, social contexts push the gender role in the same direction and it becomes difficult to escape. 
It becomes an institutional betrayal against those who wish to develop freely as individuals, regardless of gender.
Workplace Circumstances Stress Everyone but Women More than Men:
Insufficient support or inadequate attention from the immediate supervisor or manager
Lack of collegial support
The experience of not being invisible in and for their professional role
Unintentionally excluded from or overlooked in participating in professional networks or groups for knowledge exchange
Emotional labor, i.e., the energy drain from dealing with demeaning comments or actions
Exposure to, subject to and victim of sexual harassments
Homosociality, i.e., a male-dominated workplace culture and business environment that gives men a general advantage
Double burden, i.e., the unpaid duties and responsibility for home, young children, and elderly relatives in addition to paid work
Hybrid workplace has blurred the confine between work and home but it has not changed the distribution of unpaid work at home
Practice Detection and Action against Limiting Gender Roles
Uncommon Women consists of two parts:
Digital program shifting the conception of stress, and hurt from individual flaw to social structure
Online group meetings enabling the sharing and learning together with others
The digital intervention program activates your mind, body, soul and heart through
Thought provoking reflection queries
Calming and resetting breathing exercises 
Specially composed music, perfume and graphics
Intervention Program Content and Core Activities
1
Dare to say Yes
The first important step is to register your participation.
2
Practice in your own Time
You choose your own pace in the program.
3
Four Themes
The intervention consists of 20 exercises from 5 themes.
4
Personal Diary
Document your reflections in your personal digital diary.
5
Embodied Signals
Your ability to detect, decipher and respect body reactions grow.
6
Language is Key
The intervention builds your capacity to give voice to your body.
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Group Meetings
weekly facilitated online meetings to build comfort and knowledge with others.
Reasons and timing for participation
Prevention of Stress
This intervention program applies to you who feel that stress is beginning to take hold of your body and daily life, and limits you. If you guess that the stress is more context driven and that your body is trying to communicate something important, and you want support in discerning these messages - Uncommon Women is for you. 
Social Discomfort
Whether you are currently experiencing a period, or have previously experienced periods, that you would describe as socially discomfortable, this intervention offers perspectives to explain and even resolve that feeling of discomfort.
Additional Tools
We know that women's work related stress and exhaustion can be relaxed by increased understanding of embodied reactions to social power structures. Uncommon Women is a unique healing complement to other occupational health services for your exhaustion syndromes.
Upon return to Work
Women who are recovering from mental exhaustion and on their way to return to work, risk relapsing. Uncommon Wome increases your resilience against gender power related stressors that remain in the workplace's structure and culture and risk triggering negative bodily reactions.
How to participate?
Women
The study is open between September 2025 and December 2026 to women at work. You are welcome to join at any time. The program consists of two components:
A self-paced digital training program featuring 20 research-based quests and exercises.
Weekly online group meetings to share and relate together, facilitated by Camilla Rundberg. 

Organizations
Organizations committed to improving workplace mental health are welcome to offer their women employees to participate in this study.
We believe that the final analysis, insights, and results of this study will help companies reduce sick leave related to stress and mental illness by proactively using knowledge of how gender power structures affect women in often invisible and unintentional ways.
REGISTER TO PARTICIPATE:
Uncommon Women - Sign up here!
Welcome!
Camilla Rundberg, Doctor of Economics
Disputerad 2023 (KTH) med avhandlingen "Critical conversations - Constructing gender in career counselling" URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-323552




Expected Benefits and Relevance
For Women
Physical Well-being 
The training helps women become aware of their bodies’ signals and communication patterns, based on an understanding of social influence. 
Social Well-being
Women gain insight into how workplace social structures condition their behavior and learn how they can act differently to influence the gender power structure.
Mental Well-being 
Women learn concrete strategies for managing stress and challenges related to the gender power structure, which enhance their ability to act proactively and strengthen their mental well-being.
For Organizations
A New Dimension of Health
Access to preliminary analyses and discussions of conclusions provides the organization with a solid foundation for fact-based decisions and strategic improvements in everyone’s well-being and inclusion.
A Strategic Narrative
Participants’ reflections are analyzed narratively, giving employers insights into how to proactively create workplaces that do not make women more ill than men.
Healthy Work Environment
Organizations gain valuable insights into how to create a more equal, inclusive, and supportive work environment, which reduces sick leave and increases productivity.