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by Adele Horin for the Sydney Morning Herald WHAT makes women happy? Julia Gillard's ascension to power in June made Australian women very happy, according to a new study that has charted the nation's well-being for a decade. ''It could be the swearing in of a woman...

24 November, 2010

from the SMH Australia's women feel stressed out and unfit, and when it comes to leisure time they report just 30 minutes a day. A poll dubbed "Australia's Biggest Health Check", which gathered data from about 26,000 respondents, also reveals a significant mismatch between how much...

14 October, 2010

We know that men and women aren_ã_t intrinsically that different, but we_ã_ve been socialized differently and we tend to spend our time in different ways. Over the past 40 years, women_ã_s happiness has suffered. Women are less happy now than women were 40 years ago,...

26 February, 2010

Writer Ariel Gore was dismayed by what she viewed as overly narrow conclusions about women's happiness from studies in the growing field of Positive Psychology_ã”were women truly happiest when scrubbing floors and baking cookies, as some studies seemed to suggest? Were findings about nuns' positive...

05 February, 2010

What makes women happy? Looking at scads of data, some pundits say: "nothing." On a personal journey since turning the fated 50, and helped by a talented team at McKinsey, I also pursued the answer. Five years later our research has helped us begin to...

24 October, 2009

Michelle Obama to women: Do what makes you happy By DARLENE SUPERVILLE (AP) _ã_ 14 hours ago WASHINGTON _ã” First lady Michelle Obama says women should do what makes them happy, a lesson she says she learned after realizing her two children, her husband and her physical...

29 September, 2009

I don't care that Marcus Buckingham asserted in his recent post "What's Happening to Women's Happiness" that women today are in the middle of a misery epidemic. He's dead wrong _ã” women today are NOT unhappier than they were 40, 50 or 60 years ago. I've...

22 September, 2009

According to the General Social Survey, which has tracked Americans_ã_ mood since 1972, and five other major studies around the world, women are getting gloomier and men are getting happier. Before the _ã_70s, there was a gender gap in America in which women felt greater...

20 September, 2009