PRN: RacePub Date : 2009-05-01DOI: 10.1257/POL.1.2.190
Betsey Stevenson, J. Wolfers
{"title":"The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness","authors":"Betsey Stevenson, J. Wolfers","doi":"10.1257/POL.1.2.190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1257/POL.1.2.190","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":377862,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Race","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116103343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PRN: RacePub Date : 1996-12-01DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511609800.013
Anne L. Alstott
{"title":"Tax Policy and Feminism: Competing Goals and Institutional Choices","authors":"Anne L. Alstott","doi":"10.1017/CBO9780511609800.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511609800.013","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the dramatic increase in women's labor market participation in recent decades, women continue to perform a disproportionate share of family labor. Feminists have long been concerned that the gendered division of family labor reduces women's wages and circumscribes women's life choices and economic power.This article considers what tax policy might contribute to a feminist legal agenda that aims to redress the gendered division of labor. It argues that tax policy can make an important contribution but that some prior scholarship has overlooked the normative and institutional complexity of translating feminist goals into concrete policy prescriptions.","PeriodicalId":377862,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Race","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126145377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}