The Queen of Hearts

Why Are There So Many Single Americans?

According to reports, 51 percent of all women live without a spouse.

I find that slightly depressing, seeing as I’m getting to that age where freezing my eggs before they go bad is sounding like a mighty fine idea.

Once again, lets revert back to the stereotypical career girl who puts so much effort into trying to beat the boys up the corporate ladder, that she has no energy or desire to pursue a fully-fledged, time-consuming marriage. Let alone kids.

As the author of the article points out, there’s Glenn Close in “Fatal Attraction”, Sigourney Weaver in “Working Girl” and recently Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada”. All successful, but sadly single.

But the tide is turning for those poor, lonely successful business women.

Statistics show that college educated women are more likely to marry than non-college educated women — although they marry, on average, two years later.

In the past, less educated women often “married up.” Now, marriage has become more one of equals; when more highly educated men marry, it tends to be more highly educated women.

Women with more education also are becoming less likely to divorce, or inclined to divorce, than those with less education. They are even less likely to be widowed all in all, less likely to end up alone.

“Educated women used to have a difficult time,” says David Popenoe, co-director of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University. “Now they’re the most desired.” In Princeton, where he lives, men used to marry “way down the line,” Mr. Popenoe said.

No more.

So I’m not sure if this is good news or not. Corporate-type women are becoming desirable in terms of marriage, but on the other hand, less people are getting married than ever before.

What to do?

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posted by Queen of Hearts @ 06:31