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I wish what I said were fiction: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/07/the-chart-that-shows-how-feminism-is-ruining-womens-lives/ https://www.telegraph.c

• rixed 8y ago
  The data provided in the first link show that: 1. women are happier every year since ~2010; 2. the gap are closing between women and men reported happiness; 3. we have no data prior to ~2010 so we cannot compare with a situation where women were predominantly housewives (you'd have to go much furhter in the past for the UK I guess). So I don't see how this could support the theory that working women are less happy than housewives. The piece from the Guardian I found more interesting if only for the longer time span considered. And it sites the "dual burden" of work + house chores (trial, with childcare) as the source of the decrease (relative to men) of women happiness. which makes sense. Especially the part about Switzerland is enlightening. But what is compered here is present working women vs present housewives. How would compare the average present women to the average women from 60 years ago is still unknown, and it is not beyond imagination that housewives today also benefit from the more equal standing/rights between men and women in the present time. So, still not convinced that we should go back to a world where women are not expected to work :)