The Paradoxical Decline of Female Happiness in Egalitarian Norway
If Simone de Beauvoir fantasized her ideal world, it would look much like Norway today.
The state of women in modern Western culture is akin to this patient who has countless medications and is getting sicker by the minute. The doctors continue to blindly prescribe new medications every election cycle.
It’s reasonable to expect that women’s satisfaction would have risen as they have moved out into the workforce and away from raising children at home. Instead, women in the Unites States show signs of being exhausted and disappointed with life. In our waiting rooms, the 41 percent of women with burnout sit next to the 18.4 percent of women with depression.
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