TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Stevenson, Betsey
AU  - Wolfers, Justin
        TI  - The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
        PY  - 2009/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4200
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4200
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - job satisfaction
KW  - women's movement
KW  - gender
KW  - happiness
KW  - life satisfaction
KW  - subjective well-being
        ER  -