Women who are prescribed them are often diagnosed out of context. Family doctors write most of these prescriptions. To me it's like being pulled from a burning building coughing and wheezing and being treated for asthma rather than acknowledging there was a fire. Depression has social causes and pills won't change that. Surely the reason women are depressed isn't all because of society.
Depression is multi-factorial.
Usually the personal issues surrounding depression are self-esteem issues or lack of positive reinforcement from within and from the outside world. It's more important to look at the social aspects of people's lives, the social triggers of their depression. And it may not be that something terrible has happened. It may be that a person is just standing still, that they feel a hopelessness, a persistent boredom in their life. If women can take the opportunity to look at their lives and eventually create circumstances for optimum happiness, then that process may eventually lead them out of their depression.