Marcus Buckingham, a business consultant, made the case that the data showed that women have become less happy over the past 40 years. Blogs, newsmagazines, and daytime talk shows agonized over the notion that feminism all that freedom, all those choices was actually making women sadder.

In fact, the women had told the researchers whom Buckingham cited that they were not satisfied with many areas of their lives. If Western women have learned anything in the past 40 years, it is how to be unsatisfied with the status quo an important insight for the rest of the world, as we seek to export Western style feminism.