For decades, women reported higher well-being than men across standard happiness surveys. That gap has now reversed — women's self-reported happiness has plummeted while men's has held steady or improved. Henderson frames this as the unintended consequence of social progress that, in practice, ended up benefiting men more than women. The headline finding of the 2023 American Perspectives Survey is that the gender happiness gap is no longer a male deficit story; it's a female regression story.
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