A study found that women, despite all their recent gains in the Western world, are falling behind men in the happiness gap:
Yet Stevenson and Wolfers have found that in America women’s happiness, far from rising, has fallen “both absolutely and relatively to that of men”. Where women in the 1970s reported themselves to be significantly happier than men, now for the first time they are reporting levels of happiness lower than men.
In Europe, people’s sense of happiness has risen slightly, but less so for women than men. In 12 European countries, including Britain, the happiness of women has fallen relative to that of men.
As to why women are lagging men in the happiness department, the article hits all of the usual suspects: inequalities in the workplace, the demands of children plus work, etc. But oddly missing from this list — or not so oddly missing, since we live in the world of political correctness and liberal arts graduates — is what is perhaps the chief suspect, which is that men and women have entirely different natures. Meaning that if the average woman chooses to ignore her sex’s nature and adopt a man’s, then it’s only natural that she’ll be less happy
Of course, to say such a thing is taboo, which is probably why the article never touches it. But if it were the other way around, and loads of men were noted as being unhappy after choosing a lifestyle entirely contrary to their nature, would as many articles tiptoe around the issue?
Hat tip: Hilary, recovering feminist
