Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Weaponized incompetence has long been a problem for women in the workforce and at home. Now there's just a word for it.

While some women have embraced gender stereotypes and taken a liking to the conservative trad wife movement, others have taken a different route, exposing everything wrong with certain societal ...

My eighth-grade home economics class taught me that chores get done faster when you work in pairs. One person scrubs the dishes while the other dries and puts them away. So, imagine if your ...

We all know someone who seems to “forget” how to do something they’ve done a hundred times before: a partner who can’t figure out the laundry settings, a colleague who somehow never learns the new ...

Weaponized Incompetence is doing a bad job on purpose. It’s often dismissed as someone simply being bad at a task, but it rests on a social truth: most people are reluctant to hold someone accountable ...