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[00:00.00]第9期女性幸福感为何下降-英语阅读 [00:01.63]Unit 9 Why Aren't Women Happier [00:06.11]Why aren't women happier these days? [00:08.97]That's the question raised by a thought-provoking study, The Paradox [00:12.99]01 Declining Female Happiness, released last month. [00:17.08]The research showed that over the past 35 years women's happiness has [00:21.66]declined, both compared to the past and relative to men even though, [00:26.81]by most objective measures,the lives of women in the US have improved [00:31.22]in recent decades. [00:33.21]The research, by University of Pennsylvania economists Stevenson [00:37.52]and Wolfers, and released by the National Bureau of Economic Research, [00:41.97]found the decline in happiness to be pervasive among women across [00:45.58]a variety of demographic groups. [00:48.54]The researchers, for instance, measured similar declines in happiness [00:52.74]among women who were single Parents and married parents, " [00:56.56]casting doubt on the hypothesis that trends in marriage and divorce, [01:00.50]single parenthood or work/family balance are at the root of the [01:03.89]happiness declines among women," they wrote. [01:07.66]One theory for the decline in happiness is that expectations for workplace [01:12.10]and general advancement were raised too high by the women's movement [01:16.58]and women might feel inadequate for not "having it all," as a Los Angeles [01:21.54]Times columnist recently put it. [01:24.24]The researchers acknowledge that's a possibility: [01:27.69]"If the women's movement raised women's expectations faster than society was [01:31.77]able to meet them," the paper says, " [01:34.18]they would be more likely to be disappointed by their actual experienced lives." [01:38.97]But they add, things could change for the better: " [01:42.59]As women's expectations move into alignment with their experiences, [01:46.74]this decline in happiness may reverse." [01:50.21]Readers, why do you think women are unhappier than in the past? [01:54.58]Do you think that if expectations for "having it all" were lowered to " [01:58.48]move into alignment with experiences," women might be happier?