At the end of 2021, Bangkok had 5.52 million residents — 53% of whom (2.93 million) are women. Having just celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8, and with the Bangkok gubernatorial election due in the next few months, let’s take a look at the lives and wellbeing of women in the Thai capital. According to the 2020 Mental Health (Happiness) Survey by the National Statistical Office (NSO), people in Bangkok scored lower in terms of their mental wellbeing (33.28) than the national average (33.53). And in Bangkok, women scored lower than men. As the results have been similar since 2015, w…

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