Um, Why Is Maureen Dowd Rewriting Arianna Huffington?
Sad, successful, middle-aged women of the world unite! Or something. Last week Arianna Huffington, who is lately giving Google a run for its money in the Internet dominance dept., introduced a new column written by one Markus Buckingham, that aims to help women with their “sadness” (whether or not women knew they were sad prior to reading this is another question entirely). Women around the world are in a funk. And it’s not because of the multitude of crises we are facing. Women’s happiness has been on a downward trend since the early 1970s, when the General Social Survey, a landmark study, began examining the social attitudes of women and men — who, by the way, have gotten progressively happier over the years. When you think about all that has happened over the last four decades — with women securing greater opportunity, greater achievement, greater influence, and more money — the decline in our collective state of mind seems to defy logic, and raises the vexing question: What in the
