Why Women Are Unhappier than They’ve Been in Years

At long last, it’s been scientifically, mathematically, and economically proven: Women are kinda bummed out. And not just since the unemployment rate started creeping links of london toward 10 percent; we have been sinking into this funk for the past 35 years.

According to a perplexing new study from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, women have experienced steady erosion in happiness since the early 1970s, such that, while we used to test as happier than men, we are now notably less stoked than the Links of London sweetie bracelets hairier sex. The finding holds across many different polls and no matter how you slice the data—whether you are married, single, teenaged, elderly, rich or poor, American or European, a single mother or a child-free career gal—if you have two X chromosomes you are, statistically speaking, probably less happy than the dudes you know (who have become slightly more happy than they used to be, though still not as happy as women links of london jewellery were in 1972).

When I read the study over the dank, rainy, recessiony summer, I wasn’t exactly surprised to discover that women are eking less satisfaction out of life than men: It’s well known that women report higher levels of depression and take the lion’s share of antidepressants. The shocker was that the authors, economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, offered no smoking gun to explain women’s doldrums. Not only that but their data shot down a lot of links of london friendship bracelet the old scapegoats we’ve been flogging for years—working mothers, single mothers, divorce, the second shift of housework after paid work.

“It’s a blank slate,” Stevenson said when I spoke to her recently. “You can project onto it anything you want.” How intriguing! What fun! Happy days are here again! Let the projecting links of london commence!