Comments on: If You’re Happy and You Know It…

By: Pixie Stevenson

Pixie Stevenson — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:36:43 +0000

I think the belief that “gender equality” will make women happy is an illusion. Women are unhappy for the same reason that men are unhappy – they attach their happiness to sources outside of themselves.

By: Casey Dawes

Casey Dawes — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:57:32 +0000

I think one of the important things that women need to do is start acknowledging to themselves that these things are important. When working with women business owners, I see them “squeezing in” picking up kids from school, making doctor’s appointments and getting the cat to the vet. We need to plan these things into our days and make sure they get the priority they need — and we need to keep saying it over and over again until someone hears. Tough to do in this economy, I know, but it’s the only way things change….persistence.
Casey Dawes
Wise Woman Shining
aging feminist…:-))

By: Andrea Learned

Andrea Learned — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:10:26 +0000

I see the point of both the A Woman’s Nation study – and Marcus Buckingham’s HuffingtonPost series (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcus-buckingham/whats-happening-to-womens_b_289511.html ) but I wonder if how the information is presented has been getting in the way. Getting mad (or anxious) about how unhappy we are seems counterproductive. Instead – what is at the root of these issues -and why does it continue? How DO we engage more people, men and women, on these imbalances and get them pumped to help culture move more quickly for change? Noticing the little ways things have gotten better, and how those things came about, may give us clues for moving forward. Could we make Gail Collins’ new book required community reading?