Gender Gap in Happiness?

A big reason that women reported being happier three decades ago — despite far more discrimination — is probably that they had narrower ambitions, Ms. Stevenson says. Many compared themselves only to other women, rather than to men as well. This doesn’t mean they were better off back then.

But it does show just how incomplete the gender revolution has been. Although women have flooded into the work force, American society hasn’t fully come to grips with the change. The United States still doesn’t have universal preschool, and, in contrast to other industrialized countries, there is no guaranteed paid leave for new parents.

Government policy isn’t the only problem, either. Inside of families, men still haven’t figured out how to shoulder their fair share of the household burden. Instead, we’re spending more time on the phone and in front of the television.

Link to the full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/business/26leonhardt.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

I think the reality of this semester just set in and I'm not quite sure how I feel about it all.

• I'm officially (more than) half way done with college.
• Many of the people who have played important roles in my first 2 years here are now missing from Cornell. I'm not sure how (or if I want) to fill that void.
  
• I need to start making major decisions that will have significantly larger impacts on my future than any decisions I've made previously.

Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. ~Ferris Bueller