Stigma of Being Single

THE STIGMA

OF BEING SINGLE

QUOTABLE QUOTES

“Singles face discrimination, prejudice, and financial challenges as they often earn less and pay more for social benefits, health care, and income taxes, according to research.”

— PSYCHOLOGY TODAY

“In many countries, there are now more singles than couples, but people continue to view marriage as a symbol of status and success”

—PSYCHOLOGY TODAY

“Never-married women face social stigma, researchers find”

—SCIENCE DAILY

SINGLE SHAMING: Why people jump to judge the unpartnered. “The number of singletons is increasing, yet people still insist on telling them they’ll find a partner soon. What’s with all the pity?”

— BBC

The % of never-married singletons in their 40s.

“In China, if you are female, educated and unmarried by the age of 27, people might use a particular term – “Sheng-nu” – to describe your social status. It translates simply as “leftover women”. But China’s ‘leftover women’ are using their financial power to fight the stigma of being single.”

HALF A MILLION:

The figure for singles aged 40-70 in the decade-and-ahalf between 2002 and 2018.

MASSACHUSSETTS:

A state where “Being a spinster was a choice.…Some of the country’s most well-known women of that era valued their independence over partnership in Massachusetts, which has a long history of rearing women who lived singly throughout their lives. Woman’s suffragist Susan B. Anthony, who hailed from Adams, never married, nor did Concord’s Louisa May Alcott, who famously declared that “liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.”

Spinster. “A misogynist term with undertones of sour dessication or bumbling hopelessness” —EMMA JOHN, THE GUARDIAN

“Never-married women face social stigma, researchers find” —SCIENCE DAILY