Wellness & Well-being Highlights March 24th

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of Mar 24, 2025

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog looks at how your hair stylist may play an important role your Mental Health—to how digital media is negatively impacting our youth—to the importance of neurodiversity in recruiting and hiring. This week I would like to take this opportunity to encourage readers examine the WSJ article on women and marriage.

The author, Rachel Wolfe, provides a variety of reasons why, in 2025, more and more women are going solo. She points to a number of shifts, including but not limited, a growing gender-related education gap, career opportunities, political affiliation, and how one defines a contemporary family. So, instead of settling for something less than, some women are doing their best to make the best of a lousy situation. As a result, Wolfe posits that more women are focusing on their friendships and careers vs dating and marriage.

To be sure, as per the article linked below, “A rise in earning power and a decline in the social stigma for being single has allowed more women to be choosy.” In fact, a couple of survey stats revealed:

34% of single women were looking for romance vs 54% of single men (2022) vs

38% of single women were looking for romance vs 61% of single men (2019);

…meanwhile…

48% of women said that being married was not too or not at all important for a fulfilling life vs 39% of men (2023) vs

31% of women said that being married was not too or not at all important for a fulfilling life vs 28% of men (2019).

The WSJ author further proclaims that, “The latest presidential election and the first months of the Trump administration have intensified this ideological rift.” As such, when it comes to romance, “…politics have become an expression of one’s core values about everything from economic inequality to bodily autonomy.”

Source: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/american-women-are-giving-up-on-marriage-54840971?st=WXWbzu&reflink=article_gmail_share

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