American women are actually more unhappy than before
[QUOTE=ThatGuy865]AW earn good money so they do not financial need a man. Our society does not look down at a successful woman who is not married, Also our society expects our parents to plan for their retirement not to depend on their children to provide for them.
A lot of countries the custom is the kids are suppose to take care of the parents. So there is more pressure on a woman to get married by the parents. Often the parents are not thinking about the happiness of the daughter but of their own needs. Even if it isn't the parents, the daughter will feel the obligation and guilt that will make them stay in marriages for the sake of the parents.[/QUOTE]So because AW(including psychotic biyotches, single 45 year old airheads, etc.) think they are the shit now, are they happier than women in other countries?
Not really, they are actually unhappy compared to many others. You are talking from a feminazy point of view. But this is what in reality:
[url]http://www.Nber.org/papers/w14969[/url]:
"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. "
[url]http://theweek.com/article/index/96917/Women_feminism_and_happiness[/url]:
"American women are wealthier, healthier, and better educated than they were 30 years ago, " said Ross Douthat in The New York Times, but they're also more unhappy.
[url]http://www.Doublex.com/section/life/real-reason-american-women-are-so-unhappy[/url]:
"The international picture helps explain why American women in particular have wound up on a downward emotional trajectory. While women in rich countries around the world may be becoming generally sadder (Buckingham cites a British study as well as two international studies that point in this direction), American women are still probably the gloomiest. Only 3 percent of people in Japan experience major depression in their lifetime, for instance, compared with about 17 percent of Americans, according to the most recent cross-national comparison of depression rates, conducted by psychiatrist Myrna Weissman in 1996.
So why are American women so particularly blue? For women, two of the most potentially life- (and mood-) altering factors are family size and work hours. American women have notable distinctions on both fronts. First, we have more babies than women in most any other developed country. While an American woman still typically has around 2. 1 children over her lifetime, in other rich countries, family size has dropped significantly as women have gained access to jobs and education. More than 90 nations throughout Europe and Asia now have fertility rates well below ours. Second, even while we've continued to raise sizable families, American women have achieved the very highest rate of full-time employment in the world, with 75 percent of employed women working full-time."