The Paradox of Declining Female Happines

gil_galed · 2011-01-03T11:53:51+00:00

So why are women unhappier?

PornoKid · 2011-01-03T19:35:16+00:00

tld;dr The grass wasn't really greener on the other side of the fence.

Thanks to feminism, all women, not just feminists, now feel pressure to compete with men in the workplace. However, (A) the workplace still isn't 100% equal for women and (B) men have NOT taken up an equal share of homemaking and childbearing.

So now women still have all the same responsibilities they always had, plus the pressure to compete in a rigged game in a semi-hostile workplace. Sounds shitty, doesn't it?

editorial To make matters worse, and to get non-PC for a moment, the truth is women are biologically driven to have children and nest (yes, homemaking.) That doesn't necessarily mean they always enjoy it, but it's what they're programmed to do. This instinct grows dramatically as they get older. (See: baby fever.) So, what you have is a bunch of women who, in their younger years, ignore (or are oblivious to) their primal urges and pursue careers and education as a path toward fulfillment. Then they hit their late twenties/early thirties and are suddenly hit with a crushing need to have children and care for them. This necessarily disrupts or obliterates their professional life, leaving them with a sense of unfairness and loss.

So, basically, they can't have careers because their biological programming won't let them, and they can't stay home and be homemakers because society will frown on them. In other words, they can't win. It has to suck.

Karhan · 2011-01-03T18:14:12+00:00

doesn't this only mean that women are self-identifying as less happy?

kragshot · 2011-01-03T21:47:48+00:00

Be careful what you wish for....

In other news...the lives of men still sucks as it ever did, but back to our headline...teh wimmenz aren't happy...oh woe!

I'm reading this and I'm driven to ridicule because as usual, this huge study is conducted about how women aren't happy but nobody gives a damn about men being happy.

So, what is this going to mean; feminists are going to have to work harder to make men's lives more miserable so they can have "true equality."

To paraphrase Rhett Butler from "Gone With The Wind;" "Frankly, my dear; I don't give a damn."

saprian · 2011-01-03T19:31:03+00:00

TL;DR (from the abstract):

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.

Atreyu1000 · 2011-01-03T18:26:06+00:00

tldr

thetrollking · 2011-01-04T02:19:49+00:00

Good.

Title	The Paradox of Declining Female Happines
Author	tsigolohcysp
Upvotes	15
Comments	25
Date	January 3, 2011 11:33 AM UTC (15 years ago)
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