In the United States, households headed by married adults have much more wealth, on average, than those headed by single adults. And among unmarried adults, there’s a significant wealth gap between ...

Census Shows Most Poor Adults Are Women, Particularly "Women on Their Own" New census data show that most poor adult Americans are women, and the vast majority of these women are “women on their own,” ...

Unmarried women’s high and extended unemployment last month makes the need for congressional action on jobs even more urgent, write Heather Boushey and Liz Weiss. A woman stands in line at the ...

"If you're a man, you should probably get married; if you're a woman, don't bother," said Paul Dolan, a professor of behavioral science Good news for women feeling pressure to rush toward the altar ...

Men: Find a wife. Women: Don’t bother. Basically, that’s the message of a British behavioral science professor who’s been studying the happiness (and misery) of unmarried, married, divorced, separated ...

EBRI research demonstrates that unmarried women are significantly less confident in their ability to live securely in retirement than their married counterparts. New research from the Employee Benefit ...

Without the combined resources of marriage, single women have historically been at a financial disadvantage during retirement. But a recent study suggests that gap between married and unmarried women ...

People aren’t getting hitched as much anymore. A new study by researchers at Cornell University found that marriage is on the decline because there is a shortage of “economically attractive” men on ...

Women are giving birth to their first child later in life and a significant number are doing so while unmarried. A new study conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University has found that more ...