Married Women Are Increasingly Happiest

In the face of endless verbal battery against America’s oldest institution, new IFS research analyzing the General Social Survey (GSS) finds that the happiness premium for married women compared to unmarried women is not only large, but growing among prime-aged women. In 2024, the gap between married and unmarried women without children stood at a shocking 27-percentage points. A somewhat steady happiness trend through the 1990s and 2000s has since plummeted for unmarried childless women amidst the digital revolution of the last 15 years. Lacking the social, emotional, and economic protection that marriage provides, unmarried women, especially on the Left, have been uniquely victimized by the modern digital age.

by Sophie Anderson