In today’s economy, it doesn’t really make sense to be single, having a partner can help you financially. Even if it’s a 50/50 split, it still cuts your personal expenses in half.
So why is there a growing trend of single women?
In today’s economy, it doesn’t really make sense to be single, having a partner can help you financially. Even if it’s a 50/50 split, it still cuts your personal expenses in half.
So why is there a growing trend of single women?
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You don’t need to have a romantic partner to help you financially. People living with room mates and family has drastically increased across the age dynamic. And is especially prevalent with women having other women room mates. (https://getflex.com/blog/roommate-statistics)
There’s a number of reasons that might be contributing to women preferring to be single (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-single/202410/why-women-like-being-single-more-than-men-do) which eclipses their need for a non-platonic second income. Such as emotional safety, autonomy, and long-term well-being.
But it is also true that runaway inflation has simply made the cost of dating too much for a lot of single people in general, with less willingness to take attention off their careers for it. https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/study/dating-habits/
Many studies show that single women are happier, sometimes money isn’t everything. Here’s the first study I found
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Plenty of people cohabitate, but if you’re referring to why women are entering into heterosexual marriages less and less, it’s important to remember that men benefit directly from the institution of marriage significantly more than women, across almost all categories of consideration (longevity, health, economic gains etc…) and rely heavily on their wives to provide theses things. Wives tend to not rely on their husbands in these ways, and do not gain the same benefits to the same extent.
Marriage doesn’t provide as much for women as it does for men in many ways. So it makes sense that as women gain more ability to care for themselves alternatively, they will choose marriage less.
Many single women are choosing to live with other single women to achieve some of those financial benefits though.
https://content.sph.harvard.edu/wwwhsph/sites/1288/2018/05/157_The-Marriage-Gap_Optimal-Aging-and-Death-in-Partnerships.pdf
https://hbr.org/2019/03/research-when-juggling-work-and-family-women-offer-more-emotional-support-than-men
https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/study-husbands-benefit-from-mutual-caregiving-wives-feel-more-distressed/