18 October 2009

Women's Happiness

Being single and working I found this paper entilted "The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness" very interesting. The authors abstract states:
The lives of women in the United States have improved over the past
35 years by many objective measures, yet we show that measures of
subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined
both absolutely and relative to men. This decline in relative wellbeing
is found across various datasets, measures of subjective wellbeing,
demographic groups, and industrialized countries. Relative
declines in female happiness have eroded a gender gap in happiness
in which women in the 1970s reported higher subjective well-being
than did men. These declines have continued and a new gender gap
is emerging—one with higher subjective well-being for men.


I plan on reading this eventually. I feel that it is just one more proof that the Gospel is the way to go. I also have a feeling that my sisters will find this an interesting read. If you read it tell me what you think!

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