Despite significant changes in women’s lives overall in the past 40 years that have provided economic benefits — more education, more workplace participation — the poverty rates for single ...

A recent survey showed that 44.1 percent of single Japanese women ... households in which the men work for 40 years earning the average male wage, while women remain housewives all their lives.

In many ways, single women experience freedoms that are much less attainable in relationships: they have complete control over their social and sexual lives, and they’re free to focus on ...