Women Under 50 Lead the World’s 3 Happiest Countries
For 20 years now millions of people around the world have been telling Gallup about their well-being. The feedback is astonishing! Of the top 20 happiest countries, 35 percent are led by women, compared to 10 percent worldwide. Countries with female leaders recorded...
Political Scientists Say Gender Equity Is Key to Happiness
To be happier, we should elect more women to political office. Political scientists say the results are quite clear: In countries where more women hold elected office, people are happier. There is strong, consistent evidence that promoting gender equality in...
The 4 Virtues of World Happiness
The 2020 United Nations World Happiness Report, in its article, “History & the Hunt for the Root Cause,” hypothesized that past choices play a part in the psychological functioning of whole countries. The authors point to a historical pattern of virtue...
Do Political Gender Quotas Reduce Corruption?
Research indicates that gender quotas, now in half the world’s countries, do increase the number of women elected to government posts.
