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Dutch Women Don’t Get Depressed

November 24, 2010 by Scot McKnight

From Slate, by Jessica Olien:

When you read an article like this, what do you think about? Do you wonder if there might be a better way in the USA? Do you see the Dutch system as inadequate? Or … what?

Here’s one suggestion: Perhaps we need to be more active about finding a system were choice is honored — where women who work are fine; where women who don’t work are fine; where men who stay at home are fine. But where there’s less pressure for everyone to be everything.

Anyway, this is an interesting piece and good for a conversation today.

I’ve been in the Netherlands for nearly three months now, and I’ve come to one overwhelming conclusion: Dutch women are not like me. I worry about my career incessantly. I take daily stock of its trajectory and make vicious mental critiques of my endeavors. And I know—based on weekly phone conversations with friends in the United States—that my masochistic drive for success is 

Question: If French women don’t get fat, and Dutch women don’t get depressed, what do American women “don’t”?

… The NIS News Bulletin interpreted the results of the study as: “Attempts to get more women working full-time are doomed to failure because nobody has a desire for this. Both the women themselves and their partners and employers are satisfied with the Dutch part-time culture for women.”

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