From a recent research paper comes a puzzling idea :

By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women’s declining relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well-being, and is pervasive across demographic groups and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically 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.

Interesting to think about what might have caused this and how to try and turn it around. As ”
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/05/women-are-less-happy.html>Greg Mankiw points out />
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/05/women-are-less-happy.html subjective happiness might not be the right measure.

via “Greg Mankiw”: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/05/women-are-less-happy.html

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