The joys of TV-hood

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When commercials need to depict female happiness, they often do so by showing a mother joyously involved with her kids. All a sham, I’m afraid. A more realistic emblem of female happiness would be a woman watching TV all by herself.

That’s one inescapable conclusion to be drawn from a new study of working women, as summarized Friday by The New York Times from the full presentation in the journal Science. (You have to register to access the full Times site, but it’s free.)

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