The paradox of women’s well-being: Why they report higher happiness despite worse mental health

El País

The bottom line: global evidence points to a decline in women’s well-being, particularly in terms of emotional distress.

The research focused on subjective well-being, which refers to how a person perceives and describes their quality of life. “Our study analyzes and explores gender disparities in well-being. There are two disconcerting contradictions that we aimed to investigate: why they exist, whether they persist in different countries, and what really drives them,” says Caspar Kaiser, a researcher at the University of Oxford and the study’s author, in an email response.