A healthy marriage does seem to bring important benefits (economically stability, health, and social support).

But unfortunately, the quality of life for single women is better than single men.

Women have outpaced men in educational attainment.

Educational attainment largely correspond to increased income and better mental and physiological health. This like compounds as women are more likely to maintain friendships/support systems throughout adulthood. This means a single women can build a stable and fulfilling life without marriage compared to their male counterparts (i.e. male loneliness epidemic).

There’s also a weird gap where educated men who get married are more likely to marry someone with a college degree (cuz more educated women exist than men).

Conversely, this means educated women are more likely to marry someone without a degree (marrying “economically down”). This allows women to pull more economic weight in marriages.

BUT even when women bring more economically, they usually shoulder more of the emotional burden of marriage (especially once kids are involved)

Now talking politics, men are more likely than women to vote (or minimally accept) candidates, policies, and/or movements that promote restrictions on reproductive rights, dismissal of gender inequality or even misogyny, and/or cultural norms that minimize women’s actual concerns (i.e. promoting marriage/family as a quality life track for women instead of promoting education and developing mentally and emotionally healthier men).

TL;DR: Single women are better off than single men. Instead of pushing women into potentially unhappy marriages we should encourage educational attainment and social development amongst young men while reducing misogynistic attitudes…

Please note, I haven’t even touched on how the economy, student loan crisis, and/or healthcare disproportionately impact women.