Because they are being stretched too thin.
Society expects them to find a career AND raise healthy, happy babies. The rare woman can manage both and remain content herself.
yes,yes YES!!!
now we are expected to go out and bring home the $$$$, and still have 90% responsibilities of running the home.
I consider myself very lucky that I was able to stay home, and take care of my family, without having to work outside the home.
If you think about it, it was always going to be thus. Feminism is about empowering women. Empowerment means more power, power means more responsibility, responsibility means more stress, stress means more unhappiness.
You forgot to mention that women are also pressured to look like something that crawled out of a Ralph Lauren ad and remain that way for all their lives. It is an unrealistic expectation because the vast majority of women do not have bodies like a 12 year old boy or an emaciated junkie on her last legs with size DD plastic tits.
If men were held to the same standards and pressured to conform to them all of their lives they would not be very happy, either. I know very few men that have bodies and faces like the Calvin Klein underwear models and never would have them no matter how much they worked out or how much plastic surgery they had.
I have a curvy Italian type figure coming from over a thousand years of Italian ancestry. According to today's "standards of beauty" I am considered "fat", just like Venus de Milo and the ladies that Rubens and Rembrandt painted would be considered "fat" if they came to life today. For decades I unhappily starved and exercised myself to try to get myself to look like what was "expected" of me by society. The day I decided that it was not worth it to be an anorexic exerciseaholic and accept myself for who and what I am was the happiest day of my life and I have been quite happy ever since. Does that mean I do not have guys waiting in line at my door? Yes. But you know what? The ones that are there are, by and large, worth knowing-mature and secure in their masculinity. It is quality over quantity.
I disagree. Our culture does not want children, unless you count Polanski.
I believed myself a feminist in my early teens, when there was not a lot of freedom of opportunity in the workplace for women and women who wanted a career were largely directed to either teaching, nursing or office management.
Of course, I had to leave the cause of feminism pretty quickly due to the obnoxious political correctness and the promotion of a kind of heartless sexuality.
But even early on, I did not expect feminism to make women happy. I expected, naively, that it would promote freedom, freedom to find more opportunities to pursue happiness.