There's a word to describe today's thirty something women - and it's depressed. A national survey looking at the changes in people's lives across three generations since the 1940's found that twenty per cent of modern women regard themselves as deeply unhappy.
They're unhappy if they haven't got a partner, and unhappy with their partners if they've got one. They're frustrated if they started a family young, - and if they leave it till later - they're sandwiched between the demands of a young family and elderly parents. Yet this generation of women , who were born in the 70's, are the best educated and best paid for decades. Sociologist Elsa Ferri and Journalist Flic Everett join Jenni in asking...are these women sad or spoilt? Please Email Woman's Hour with your comments - or solutions if you have any - on how they might find the happiness that eludes them. 'Changing Britain, Changing Lives: Three generations at the turn of the century', Edited by: Elsa Ferri, John Bynner & Michael Wadsworth, Published by Institute of Education Publications, ISBN: 0854736506
