Literature on females in leadership positions in politics find positive effects on the electorate - health and education of children, public goods aimed at women, and women empowerment. In this paper we investigate how women political heads affect the mental well-being of the citizens. Using individual level health survey data from two large states of India, where the headship position for a fixed proportion of village councils is reserved for women and this allocation is randomised, we find that women electorates in reserved villages are happier relative to men in the unreserved villages. This result also bears out when we use self-reported quality of life as an indicator. We find that while men of all age groups are unhappy under a female leader, women aged 18-49 are happier than their unreserved counterparts, suggesting that women leaders may favour policies which affect gender relations. Mediation analyses point out that one of the mechanisms at play is that the women in reserved villages feel safer when on their own, a channel different from those found in the literature. Heterogeneity analyses point out that this impact on happiness is stronger for women in villages having a lower gender ratio. We also find that women higher up in the socio-economic ladder have the highest marginal effect.