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After decades of women’s rights gains, why are women less happy?

After decades of women’s rights gains, why are women less happy?

Part of The Happiness Issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world.



Aubrey Hirsch is a writer and illustrator in Berkeley, California. Her work has appeared in the Nib, the New York Times, the Rumpus, and elsewhere.

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