这项研究由宾夕法尼亚大学经济学家史蒂文森和沃尔弗斯进行,Bureau ofEconomic由美国国家经济研究局(NationalResearch)公布。研究发现,在各类女性群体中,幸福感都普遍下降。(2)举例来讲,研究人员发现,单身母亲和已婚母亲中幸福感的下降幅度类似,他们写道:这对一种假说提出了质疑,这种假说认为,婚姻、离婚、单身母亲或工作/家庭平衡等问题中的发展趋势是导致女性幸福感下降的根源。
One theory for the decline in happiness is that expectations for workplace and general advancement were raised too high by the womens movement and women might feel inadequate for not having it all, as a Los Angeles Times columnist recently put it.
正如《洛杉矶时报》一位专栏作家最近所写的,关于幸福感下降的一个理论是,对工作和总体发展的期望值被妇女运动推得过高,如果没有拥有一切,女性可能就觉得有所欠缺。
The researchers acknowledge thats a possibility:
研究人员承认这是一种可能。
If the womens movement raised womens expectations faster than society was able to meet them, the paper says, they would be more likely to be disappointed by their actual experienced lives. But they add, things could change for the better: As womens expectations move into alignment with their experiences, this decline in happiness may reverse.
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