This just in: Men are as miserable as women. At least that’s what we learn from a new study by Arizona State professor Chris M. Herbst, who suggests that men’s happiness has taken as big a dive as women’s over the past several years. We think that’s good news. Back in 2009, Penn economists Betsey [...]
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Men Are Unhappy: Good News For Women?
Posted in culture, feminism, life choices, Paradox of Women's Declining Happiness, worklife balance, workplace, tagged "Families and Work Institute", "The New Male Mystique", Betsey Stevenson, Chris M. Herbst, Ellen Galinski, Justin Wolfers, Mad Men, the paradox of declining female happiness on July 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Want Happy? Try Sad!
Posted in life choices, Paradox of Women's Declining Happiness, purpose, Uncategorized, tagged Allan Horwitz, Carlin flora, Eric Wilson, happiness, Jerome Wakefield, Marcus Buckingham, Psychology today, Russ Harris, the paradox of declining female happiness on January 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Frankly, all this hype about happy is making me sad. It’s not enough we have folks like Marcus Buckingham telling us how to be happy — and making us feel guilty because we are not. Or the incessant volleys about the paradox of women’s declining happiness. But, frankly, despite the wealth of books, blogs, life [...]
Feminism 2.0: Enough?
Posted in feminism, identity, Paradox of Women's Declining Happiness, purpose, why women?, tagged Naomi Wolf, settling, The Beauty Myth, the paradox of declining female happiness on December 7, 2009 | 7 Comments »
When everything is on the menu, it takes an awful lot of willpower to say, you know, I’m not really that hungry. Even if you’re really not that hungry. Even if, in fact, you’re stuffed. This being the season of the cocktail party, I’m unable to think in anything other than food metaphors, but, in [...]
The Examined Life: Happiness Redefined.
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", feminism, Paradox of Women's Declining Happiness, why women?, worklife balance, tagged eat pray love, Ellen Galinski, feministe, Huffington Post, jillian Hewitt, Marcus Buckingham, Morra Arrons-Mele, the paradox of declining female happiness, Unhappiness gap on September 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Hold the hankies, girls. Here comes the heresy. To wit, maybe we’re actually a lot happier than Marcus Buckingham et al think we are. It’s not that anyone disputes the data. Clearly, the numbers are all there, and they show that quantitatively, women rate themselves lower on the happiness scale than they did back in [...]
The Zeitgeist: Undecided readers write in
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Passion or paycheck", Commencement, quarterlife, the paradox of declining female happiness, too many choices on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Check what some of our readers have had to say this past week. To continue the conversations — or read the whole comments — click the links. On quarterlife: “…especially with all the recent layoffs, quarter-lifers like myself are stuck answering the age-old question: what should I do with my life? I have a full-time [...]
More Opportunity=Less Happiness. Wait. Really?
Posted in feminism, Paradox of Women's Declining Happiness, Uncategorized, tagged Betsey Stevenson, Business Week, Justin Wolfers, Marcus Buckingham, Marta Mossburg, more opportunities for women, Sunday London Times, the paradox of declining female happiness, The Washington Examiner, too many choices, Wharton School on July 3, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Wharton School’s Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers published a study in May that’s been dubbed “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness.” The title kinda says it all, but the gist is that, while, 35 years ago or so, women reported being happier than men, today women–regardless of marital or employment status or whether or not [...]
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