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Single Women Take the Lead in America For what may be the first time, 51 percent of American women are living without a husband. And single women are more socially connected, economically stable, and happier then ever before. Guests on the program define what exactly it means to be single.

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Single Women Take the Lead in America

Heard on Talk of the Nation

Single Women Take the Lead in America

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For what may be the first time, 51 percent of American women are living without a husband. And single women are more socially connected, economically stable, and happier then ever before. Guests on the program define what exactly it means to be single.

Guests:

William Frey, Demographer at the Brookings Institution

Yolanda Young, author of On Our Way to Beautiful Washington, D.C. attorney

Bella DePaulo, author of Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After