According to Gallup’s annual survey, women’s anger has increased globally over the past ten years.
According to one, women are getting angry. The BBC A study of data from Gallup The global survey was collected over a decade.
Each year, more than 120,000 people from more than 150 countries participate in a poll that asks them, among other things, how they felt the previous day.
Women Report experiencing regular negative emotions, including anger, sadness, stress, and anxiety more often than men.
According to of the BBC According to the data, both sexes have continued to trend upwards, but since 2012, more women than men have reported experiencing depression and anxiety.
However, the divide between men and women continues to worsen when it comes to anger and stress. In 2012, stress and anger were expressed equally by both sexes. Nine years later, women are more stressed and angry by a difference of six percentage points. And around the time of the pandemic, there was a marked deviation.
People of all genders are sadder, more anxious and more stressed this year than ever before, according to an annual study by an international research firm.
“Many things make people unhappy, but there are five major contributors to global unhappiness: poverty, bad communities, hunger, loneliness and lack of good work,” wrote Gallup CEO Jon Clifton. Written by O Jon Clifton.
The gender gap in anger was particularly widened during the COVID lockdown, perhaps because women have and continue to face both family responsibilities and economic hardships related to the pandemic.
According to therapist Sarah Harmon, a mother of two young children, “there was just this incredible, low-level anger that escalated into pure rage.” He brought the female customers together in an open field so that they could literally scream together as a means of competition.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies found that in a 2020 survey of nearly 5,000 divorced parents in England, mothers took on more household responsibilities than fathers during the lockdown. As a result, they reduce their working hours. Even when it was family members who made more money, this was still the case.
The proportion of women versus men who report experiencing anger the day before varies significantly more across countries than globally.
In 2021, the disparity was 17 percentage points in Cambodia, compared to 12 percentage points in India and Pakistan.
“We have a sex-segregated labor market,” author Surya Chemali told the news outlet, adding to the problem of how occupations in female-dominated fields, such as caregiving, often have less pay, less Pay, and come with higher rates. burn
“High levels of repressed, repressed, and misdirected anger” are observed among caregivers. And a big part of that is being expected to work non-stop,” Camille explains. “And without any legal restrictions.”
Still, others see a positive side to the fact that women are venting their anger. According to Janet Azcona of UN Women, “You need passion and anger. You need both to shake things up from time to time and to get people to pay attention and listen.”