The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness

The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness

By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the
past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s
happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men

We are All Some Father’s Child: Toward a Paternal Ethic of Care

We are All Some Father’s Child: Toward a Paternal Ethic of Care

Beginning with Aristotle, and then through much of the Enlightenment period, moral and political philosophers have regarded the relatively independent male as normative, with the female as secondary, dependent, and therefore, subordinate in value to the male. But when we give pride of place, as care ethicists do, to the dependent and vulnerable and those who care for them, then the gestating and nursing maternal body is ascendant.