Older Adults with No Children: Issues with Housing and Hunger
The Census Bureau just released their first-ever report on older people in the U.S. who do not have biological children. For those of us interested in single people, the report is relevant because 7...
View ArticleSingle Men Are Unfairly Disadvantaged in the Workplace
Married men are paid more than single men. That has been demonstrated so many times, researchers have a name for it: “the male marriage premium.” The question now is why. Do married men deserve to be...
View ArticleJaclyn Geller Offers 10 Bold Ways Single People Can Be the Change We Want to See
Jaclyn Geller, a longtime member of Unmarried Equality, is guest-posting here to share her bold (and sometimes hilarious) Call to Action for single people who are tired of the pervasive unfairness that...
View ArticleWhat Might Motivate Coupled People to Be Allies to Single People?
In some ways, it has been a good couple of weeks for calling attention to the ways in which single people are disadvantaged. For example, in his opinion piece in the New York Times, Charles M. Blow...
View ArticleThe Number of Unmarried Americans Continues to Grow, Latest Census Report Shows
On November 29, the Census Bureau released its estimates of America’s family and living arrangements for the year 2021. Results showed a continuation of trends ongoing for decades. The number and...
View ArticleEconomists’ Explanations for Women’s Occupational Choices Are Also Relevant...
My heart was broken again recently, when I heard the story of still another single person (I’ll call him Sam) who really wanted to stay single but could not get past the feeling that doing so would...
View ArticleNational Survey Documents High Rates of Denial that Singlism Exists or that...
Single people are targets of singlism: they are stereotyped, stigmatized, and discriminated against. Research documenting singlism is piling up, but do Americans realize it even exists? And if they are...
View ArticleSingle Women with Disabilities, Part 1: Guest Post by Jill Summerville
Jill Summerville describes the many ways that single women with disabilities are unfairly disadvantaged. This is Part 1 of 2. Bella’s intro: The experiences and perspectives of people with disabilities...
View ArticleSingle Women with Disabilities, Part 2: Guest Post by Jill Summerville
This is the 2nd of Jill Summerville’s 2-part article, “Single women with disabilities: A worth universally doubted.” Part 1 is here. A Woman With A Disability Must Be In Want Of A Marriage A Google...
View ArticleClout Isn’t Just about the Number of People in a Group, But the Number Who...
I was once interviewed by a reporter writing a cover story for the Washington Post Magazine on people who stay single. I told her that I love being single. It is who I really am. I’m Single at Heart....
View ArticleThe Single Professional Women Who Get Promoted Less Often Than Everyone Else
More and more young, talented single women without children are pursuing jobs in business and STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). They should have it made. Because they are not...
View ArticleWant to Share a Rental with Roommates? In Some Places, That’s Illegal
When I was researching my book How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century, I asked many people how they would like to live if they could choose any way at all. One popular fantasy...
View ArticleNew Report Documents Growing Disapproval of Single Mothers
What do you think of single women raising children on their own – is it a good thing for society, a bad thing, or do you think it doesn’t make much difference? In 2018 and again in 2021, a...
View ArticleCommunities of Single People as Agents of Social Change
Seven years ago, in July of 2015, I started an online Facebook group, the Community of Single People, for people who want to discuss every aspect of living single except dating or trying to unsingle...
View ArticleStructural Singlism: The Blatant and Insidious Ways It Undermines Our Lives
In everyday life, single people are often stereotyped and stigmatized in the conversations they have with other people. The kinds of things other people say to us, and about us, sometimes reveal that...
View ArticleBosses Who Are a Dream to Their Married Workers and a Nightmare to Their...
Tomorrow (September 18) is the first day of Unmarried and Single Americans Week, a time to keep in mind the ways in which single people contribute to society but are rarely recognized or rewarded the...
View ArticleBecause People See Marital Status as Controllable, They Don’t Think It Is...
Sometimes it is obvious when people are treating others unfairly. Some examples of discrimination are blatant. Consider this example that Wendy Morris and Stacey Sinclair and I tested in our study of...
View ArticleSingle People Are Grateful to These Businesses and Thought Leaders
Single people often get short shrift in a world obsessed with marriage and coupling, and at Unmarried Equality and elsewhere, I have often pointed out examples of singlism (the stereotyping,...
View ArticleTaking Single People Seriously: Lots of Progress, Some Disappointment
Getting single people and single life taken seriously should not be a hard sell. In the U.S., nearly half of all adults 18 and older are not married. On the average, Americans spend more years of their...
View ArticleThe Political Power of Single Women
“In the near future, American politics, both national and local, may turn on the degree to which people remain single, and also whether they decide to have children.” That declaration appeared in an...
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