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For those who believe that gender is a social construct, and there are no differences between men and women’s brains, this paper is something of a reality check.
But the truth is, these women are not 'free' of the children they yearn for. Motherhood is a burden that we would give anything to bear.
Women can be victims. In this world, there are violent, exploitative people willing to use and abuse their fellow human beings.
The world is theirs for the taking — only a significant proportion are, it seems, too anxious, depressed and traumatised to take advantage.
Reproductive events across a woman’s life are associated with hormonal changes, which have been linked to anxiety.
The decline in female subjective wellbeing was found to cut across both class and race and held true for women of all ages, with children and without.