Girls are increasingly pessimistic about marriage

Girls were once more marriage minded than boys. For decades, research showed that girls held higher expectations of getting married than their male peers. Between 1976 and 2010, 83% of 12^th grade girls said they expected to marry one day, compared to 76% of boys. But in 2010, the trend began to shift as girls became increasingly pessimistic about marriage. In the years following the global pandemic, girls were for the first time less likely than boys to say they expected to get married, with only 67% of 12^th grade girls saying they expected to marry versus 72% of boys.

by Grant Bailey