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When work partnerships develop unspoken and unequal divisions of labor

My research partner and I have been co-authoring papers for two years and we've developed this pattern where I do most of the writing and she does most of the analysis but neither of us has ever explicitly agreed to this division and I'm starting to resent it but I don't know if she even sees the imbalance.

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You've quietly taken on more of the work, and you're starting to resent it.

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