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Why Jobs Won’t Make Women Happy
The average woman today living in the English-speaking world is three times more likely to experience mental health problems.
One in five of these women will experience a common health disorder related to mental health, such as depression and anxiety.
That is 19% of women compared to men, which is 12%.
Depression rates and mental health problems among women have been consistently on the rise since the 1960s.
There are many reasons for this, such as poverty, negative aspects of feminism, as well as many other issues, such as the rise of social media in the mid-2000s, which all have contributed in various ways to the increase in depression and mental health problems within the female population.
There are two conclusions which can be derived for the reasons for women’s mental health problems that were strongly linked to the economic changes taking place in the global economy in the 1960s and 1970s, which saw women entering the workforce as well as how we work fundamentally changing.
In the 1960s, particularly the 1970s, humanity moved into the silicon age, the computer age, sometimes called the information age, which saw the creation of more mental-intensive jobs.
