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All the Single Ladies

Elle magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Robbie Myers will moderate a free, public panel discussion on the sexual, economic and emotional lives of women in America. The panel is based off of Rebecca Traister’s new book, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation.

In the book Traister traces the history of unmarried women in America who, through social, political, and economic means, have radically shaped our nation. When Traister began the project in 2009, she thought it would be a work of contemporary journalism about the twenty-first century phenomenon of the American single woman. It was the year the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50% and the median age of first marriages, which had remained between 20-22 years old for nearly a century (1890–1980), had risen dramatically to 27. But over the course of her research and more than 100 interviews with academics and social scientists and prominent single women, Traister discovered a startling truth: the phenomenon of the single woman in America is not a new one. And historically, when women were given options beyond early heterosexual marriage, the results were massive social change—temperance, abolition, secondary education, and more.











When: Tue., Mar. 1, 2016 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Elle magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Robbie Myers will moderate a free, public panel discussion on the sexual, economic and emotional lives of women in America. The panel is based off of Rebecca Traister’s new book, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation.

In the book Traister traces the history of unmarried women in America who, through social, political, and economic means, have radically shaped our nation. When Traister began the project in 2009, she thought it would be a work of contemporary journalism about the twenty-first century phenomenon of the American single woman. It was the year the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50% and the median age of first marriages, which had remained between 20-22 years old for nearly a century (1890–1980), had risen dramatically to 27. But over the course of her research and more than 100 interviews with academics and social scientists and prominent single women, Traister discovered a startling truth: the phenomenon of the single woman in America is not a new one. And historically, when women were given options beyond early heterosexual marriage, the results were massive social change—temperance, abolition, secondary education, and more.

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