How the World’s Happiest Countries Are Not Entirely Happy

A close look at how we identify the world’s happiest countries reveals that happiness ranks could be misleading.

How Much Does Happiness Matter?

Trying to choose among the best places to live, we wind up with disparate global rankings, depending on the criteria.

How the Global Gender Gap Changed in 2022

For our annual visit to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, we can identify some progress and considerable concern.

Why We Don’t Want To Be The World’s Happiest Country

Reading the 2022 World Happiness Report, I wonder whether its six variables are what we should use to rank happy countries.

Looking at the Invisible Work That Women Do

Looking at women’s invisible work, we also see the relatively small amount done by men in most countries and the pay that was foregone.

What We Can Learn From Lunch

As Covid restrictions and precautions subside and we return to work, we can ask how normal the four day workweek will become.

Where Thursday Could Become the New Friday

Asking about the 4-day workweek, we can look at the answers from a recent study in Iceland and also at Sweden, Germany, and Italy.

How the Global Gender Gap Has Changed

In its annual Global Gender Gap Report, the World Economic Forum looks within countries to quantify gender parity.

The Fights That Migrating Fish Fuel

When global warming causes fish migration, the impact involves much more than species survival, nutrition, and ocean temperatures.

Questions About the Global Gender Gap

Because the ranking depends on our variables and their definitions, measuring the global gender gap can have surprising results.