The puzzle of Britain’s unhappy girls
A happiness gap has opened up between boys and girls. Are social media to blame?
ON MANY measures, from exam results to interest in science jobs, boys and girls in Britain are becoming more similar. But on one they are drifting apart. According to a report published on August 29th by the Children’s Society, a charity, girls have become increasingly unhappy in recent years. Measured on a ten-point scale of self-reported happiness, the average score for girls aged 11-15 fell from 8.2 in 2010 to 7.8 in 2016. Boys remained chirpy, their score hardly moving from 8.3 to 8.2.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Sometimes it’s hard”
Britain September 1st 2018
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