Let’s do a thought experiment.
Take average women in NYC or London and take average women from the villages in Mauritania or Iraq or Somalia.
Now ask the women from these locations about how happy they are, how good life is, etc. Total all the results. This will give you what’s called a Subjective Well Being (SWB) score.
Now compare the average SWB of women in NYC/London/Paris to the average SWB of men. Now do the same for the Muslim villages.
Where do you think will have the larger gap between men and women in terms of happiness and SWB? The highly gender equal cities or the patriarchal Muslim villages?
Well, the latest research shows that the gap is larger in more gender-equal countries!
The study says:
Using Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 and 2018 data from 78 countries (N = 941,475), we find that gender gaps in adolescents’ SWB (life satisfaction, positive and negative affect) are larger in more gender-equal countries.
This is a study that analyzed data from nearly one million students across 78 countries.
The result is: The more gender equal a country is, the larger the gap between men’s SWB and women’s. In less gender equal societies, men and women have more equal levels of SWB.
The findings can be visualized like this:
They call this a “paradox.”
Results paradoxically indicated that gender equality enhances boys’ but not girls’ SWB, suggesting that greater gender equality may facilitate social comparisons across genders.
It is not a paradox if you understand female nature and hypergamy. Patriarchy and the inequality of genders is natural. If you disrupt this natural order, it leads to dysfunction and dissatisfaction.
But of course, the researchers can’t admit that due to their liberal feminist dogma, so they give this nonsense explanation:
[Increased gender equality in society] may lead to an increased awareness of discrimination against females and consequently lower girls’ SWB, diluting the overall benefits of gender equality.
Read that carefully. They are saying that more gender equality results in more gender awareness of discrimination which results in less SWB. How does that make any sense? Basically, they mean that women in less gender equal countries are too uneducated to recognize their plight. They are blissfully ignorant of all the evil oppression they suffer under the boots of those dastardly patriarchal men. It is Western women who are educated and intelligent enough to see their plight, and that is making them less happy and more depressed.
O woe, the burdens of enlightenment!
Obviously, this is nothing but feminist self-congratulation. No matter what the empirical evidence to the contrary, it can never be that feminism is the problem. Gender equality can never be wrong. There is no empirical data that can ever establish that gender equality is bad for society simply because these feminists will always find an excuse to dismiss the obvious conclusion. The only conclusion these studies have for feminists is that we need more and more feminism! We need to do even more to make women happy! It is never enough.
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Yet, these liberals always claim that Muslims (and theists in general) are unscientific and willfully blind to empirical data! Just the opposite. It is the liberal who stubbornly refuses to see what is right before his eyes.
It’s funny, though. The one thing feminism is supposed to deliver is women’s happiness, at the very least happiness equal to men’s. These feminists are fine burning down the entire globe, destroying countless families, collapsing all of society and civilization for the sake of women’s satisfaction. And they aren’t even able to achieve that! Decades of feminism cultural engineering, social reconstruction, and they can’t do it. They have only made women less happy compared to men. So they have to make these laughable excuses and title it a “paradox.”
Oh, what a strange paradox! How very curious this paradox is!
Anyway, bottom line is that this study indicates that the more equality women have with men, the less happy and satisfied they feel compared to men. In contrast, in patriarchal societies, women are happier compared to the men in their societies despite having less equality with them.
Feminists: You’ve got some explainin’ to do.
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This is measuring a go in happiness, not total happiness. So it may be that men and women are both equally unhappy in rural communities. And lol at Daniel using Western studies, I thought all Western studies were unreliable and biased?
*gap in happiness
Here is wayne again with his fallacies. I have to congratulate you how you didn’t repeat your usual cringey forced laughter (“lol”) that you usually spew (reminds me of the crying woyak with the mask)”It may be”- your speculations. The researchers themselves call it a paradox, that women are happier in societies without gender equality (there is other research,too)Why mention these studies? In order to show secularists, that even their own research indicates that feminism damages society
But Haqiqatjou keeps saying how Western research is biased and how there is a big grand plan to push “feminism” onto society, and then he quotes Western research to reach a conclusion that doesn’t hold. And I did say lol, lol
Wayne. Of course they are biased. And when biased people say something that goes against their bias, there probably telling not lying.
Just like a bot, you are just programmed to shoot arrows in the dark.
Do you really think that all westerners are on the same page? There are independent researchers … And also don’t forget that the author of this article is a westerner himself…
“…, collapsing all of society and civilization for the sake of women’s satisfaction.”It’s not for the sake of women’s satisfation, quite the contrary. It’s for the sake of their Malthusian project ie. reducing the world population (LGBTQ+ and abortion rights are also part of this). Feminism, sexual liberation, climate activism and gay rights all started in the sixties (roughly ’68). What also started at that time was this hysteria about overpopulation.
With books like Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb. The phenomena mentioned above plus gender equality are all Maltusian tools to reduce fertility. According to Ehrlich the world shouldn’t exceed a population of more than 2 billion.
So-called gender equality is so effective because women aren’t romantically interested in men of lower status: a male doctor can easily find a female nurse wifeable but a female doctor generally will have no interest in a male nurse. Once you’ve artificially raised women’s socio-economic status through preferential treatment in education and hiring you’ll see an almost direct decline in the fertility rate.
This is one of the reasons the West is so concerned with girls’ schools in Afghanistan. And increasingly also girls’ education in Africa.