%0 Report
        %A Stevenson, Betsey
%A Wolfers, Justin
        %T The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
        %D 2009
        %8 2009 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 4200
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4200
        %X 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.
        %K job satisfaction
%K women's movement
%K gender
%K happiness
%K life satisfaction
%K subjective well-being