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https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/542579
Apologies if a thread has already been made regarding this.
It's interesting to note that the majority of the subjects in the paper were born between 1957 and 1965, do you think these results would be similar for recent generations? Or would even greater freedom and equality in career choice/earnings decreased the level of depression for Women in the workplace?
I've seen many articles over the last few years correlate Women's equality/rise of Feminism to higher and higher levels of depression and dissatisfaction. Has the Feminist push for further "equality" actually hurt the level of happiness and satisfaction that Women have?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/may/18/womens-rights-happiness-wellbeing-gender-gap
I've long believed the radical Feminist push for "true equality" has sought to bypass natural biological gender roles and in turn Women have become depressed and dissatisfied, trying to compete with men in the workplace.
Is Feminism failing Women? Should we accept there are biological differences between Men and Women, and those differences should be celebrated, rather than shunned?
New research by human development and family studies professor Karen Kramer and doctoral researcher Sunjin Pak found that men’s and women’s psychological well-being is affected differently when their wages and share of their family’s income changes.
Researchers Karen Kramer and Sunjin Pak found that when women’s paychecks increased to compose the majority of their families’ income, these women reported more symptoms of depression.
However, Kramer and Pak found the opposite effect in men: Dads’ psychological well-being improved over time when they became the primary wage-earners for their families.
Kramer and Pak found that although women’s psychological well-being was not affected by exiting the workforce to become stay-at-home moms, men’s mental health declined when they stayed home to care for the kids.
Women in the study who viewed themselves and their spouses as equally responsible for financially supporting their families and caring for their homes and offspring experienced better mental health when their wages and share of the family’s income increased.
However, regardless of their beliefs, men’s mental health took a hit when their earnings as a proportion of the family income shrank – suggesting perhaps that “work identity and (the) traditional role of primary earner are still critical for men, even when they have more egalitarian gender ideology,” the researchers wrote.
Apologies if a thread has already been made regarding this.
It's interesting to note that the majority of the subjects in the paper were born between 1957 and 1965, do you think these results would be similar for recent generations? Or would even greater freedom and equality in career choice/earnings decreased the level of depression for Women in the workplace?
I've seen many articles over the last few years correlate Women's equality/rise of Feminism to higher and higher levels of depression and dissatisfaction. Has the Feminist push for further "equality" actually hurt the level of happiness and satisfaction that Women have?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/may/18/womens-rights-happiness-wellbeing-gender-gap
The “paradox of declining female happiness” was pointed out by economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, who also happen to share a house and kids. They analyzed the happiness trends of US citizens between 1970 and 2005 and found a surprising result.
Stevenson and Wolfers discovered that American women rated their overall life satisfaction higher than men in the 1970s. Thereafter, women’s happiness scores decreased while men’s scores stayed roughly stable. By the 1990s, women were less happy than men. This relative unhappiness softened after the turn of the century, but men continue to enjoy a higher sense of subjective wellbeing that is at least as high — if not higher — than women’s.
I've long believed the radical Feminist push for "true equality" has sought to bypass natural biological gender roles and in turn Women have become depressed and dissatisfied, trying to compete with men in the workplace.
Is Feminism failing Women? Should we accept there are biological differences between Men and Women, and those differences should be celebrated, rather than shunned?