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Men in Pink

Posted in culture, economy, feminism, gender roles, worklife balance, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 22, 2012| Leave a Comment »

In a meeting last week, another editor and I got to discussing the state of the food section of our paper. (Perhaps we were hungry.) He immediately went on a tangent (okay, we were hungry), talking about how he was so interested to learn recently of the history of food criticism; how the food pages, […]

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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 , , , , , , , on July 21, 2011| Leave a Comment »

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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Happy’s Last Stand. And Aprons, Too.

Posted in being judged, culture, feminism, life choices, Paradox of Women's Declining Happiness on May 13, 2010| 5 Comments »

Let’s just agree for one last time that all this happiness business in the wake of the “Paradox of Women’s Declining Happiness” study has a very unhappy subtext: Blame the victim. The victim being us. You’re not happy? The horror! There must be something wrong with you. Blame yourself! Blame feminism! Blame your choices! Whatever […]

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The Race of the Rug Rats

Posted in "What should I do with my life?", life choices, Uncategorized, worklife balance, tagged , , , on April 8, 2010| Leave a Comment »

You’ll find good news and bad news out of a new time-use study out of the Brookings Institution conducted by a husband and wife team of UC-San Diego economists. Reporting on the study, New York Times blogger Tara Parker-Pope writes that moms and dads alike are spending more time with their kids than ever before, […]

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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 , , , , , , , , 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 […]

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Women’s Declining Happiness: The Paradox That Isn’t

Posted in being judged, feminism, Paradox of Women's Declining Happiness, why women?, worklife balance on September 21, 2009| 16 Comments »

A study by Wharton School’s Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, called “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness” that I first wrote about in July got a lot of attention this week. First, from self-helpuru Marcus Buckingham on the Huffington Post, in a piece trumpeted as the beginning of a series, and which benefitted from some […]

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More Opportunity=Less Happiness. Wait. Really?

Posted in feminism, Paradox of Women's Declining Happiness, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on July 3, 2009| 8 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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