The twentieth century has seen a progressive increase of gender equity in almost all dimensions of society. This includes the household, where roles concerning childcare and domestic work have become less gender specific. Gender systems are likely to have an important impact on individuals’ well-being. For instance, one might argue that improved gender equity has improved the general wellbeing of women, although its extent may depend on the context in which women live and operate. This work considers the effect of the unequal division of labour within the household, between women and their partner, on the individuals’ own subjective assessment of happiness. We conduct the analysis using a comparative perspective, through data collected in the European Social Survey (Round 2, 2004). We include 26 countries of the Eurasian region and explore, exploiting a multilevel model, the relationship between the share of housework conducted by women and their happiness, controlling for variables such as age, religiousness, health, number of children and support from anyone outside the household. Furthermore, given the Multi-Level model, we are able to investigate the determinants of women’s differing levels of happiness across countries. In particular, we investigate to which extent gender equality at the country level is able to explain variation in happiness at the individual level.