This paper analyses how gender-based disparities in the Euro-Area affect women’s job satisfaction using the EWCS (2015), and the Global Gender Gap Index introduced by the World Economic Forum. Heckman's two-stage estimates show that women have a higher probability of job satisfaction than their male colleagues, which endorses the paradox of the female contented worker. There does not seem to be an equalization of job satisfaction as higher educational levels and lower age groups are considered. In those settings where the situation of women is more unfavourable than that of men, the probability for women to be more satisfied at work is lower. Therefore, the adaptive expectations hypothesis, by which individuals would internalize the difficulties they face and, ceteris paribus, would experience greater satisfaction than their counterparts, in this case males, is not corroborated.

本文使用EWCS（2015）和世界经济论坛提出的全球性别差距指数，分析了欧元区基于性别的差异如何影响妇女的工作满意度。赫克曼（Heckman）的两阶段估计显示，女性比男性同事具有更高的工作满意度可能性，这证明了女性知足的工人的悖论。考虑到较高的教育水平和较低的年龄组，工作满意度似乎并没有达到均等化。在那些女性状况比男性状况更不利的环境中，女性在工作中更加满足的可能性更低。因此，适应性期望假说可以使人们内化他们所面临的困难，而与其他人相比，他们的同伴会比同伴有更大的满足感，