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 ...

If you’re a single woman, chances are you’ve been asked at some point when you plan to “settle down,” get married, or have kids. The people making these comments often presume that the surefire ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While social norms and family expectations often pressure women to get married, "settle down," and prioritize finding their partner over other life experiences early in their lives, there's a reason ...

Ruth Schick, 85, considers traveling in retirement her third career. She began her solo travel in earnest in 2000 after her husband died. She's been to every continent and every state in the US. Her ...

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 ...

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,” ...

Single ladies – the secret to happiness may never be putting a ring on it. Women who are never married and don’t have children are the most content and outlive their married counterparts, according to ...