All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation (52 page)

10
. Chevigny, Bell Gale,
Margaret Fuller the Woman and the Myth
113.

11
. Coontz,
Marriage, A History
, 205–206.

12
. All letters cited were written between August and October 1854, from Margaret Smith, ed.,
The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: Volume Three 1852–1855.

13
. Mailer, Norman, “The Mary McCarthy Case,”
The New York Review of Books
, October 17, 1963, in Nussbaum, Emily, “Hannah Barbaric,”
The New Yorker
, February 11, 2013.

14
. Episode One,
Makers: Women Who Make America
, PBS, February 26, 2013.

15
. Syme, Rachel, “The Broad Strokes,”
Grantland.com
, January 14, 2015,
http://grantland.com/features/broad-city-season-2-comedy-central-abbi-jacobson-ilana-glazer/
.

Chapter Five: My Solitude, My Self

1
. Ortberg, Mallory, “What the Happiest Woman in the World Looks Like,”
TheToast.com
,
February 11, 2015,
http://the-toast.net/2015/02/11/happiest-woman-world-looks-like/#GjSEZ1Sf1HaxYbj6.99
.

2
. Kurutz, Steven, “One if the Quirkiest Number,”
The New York Times
, February 22, 2012.

3
. Schwartz, Benjamin E., “Selfishness as Virtue,”
The American Interest
, June 10, 2012,
http://www.the-american-interest.com/article-bd.cfm?piece=1272#sthash.RdgQ6T9c.dpuf
.

4
. Parker-Pope, Tara, “In a Married World, Singles Struggle for Attention,”
The New York Times
, September 19, 2011,
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/the-plight-of-american-singles/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
.

5
. Bennett and Froide,
Singlewomen in the European Past,
60–63.

6
. Farmer, Sharon, in Bennett and Froide,
Singlewomen in the European Past,
87.

7
. Chambers-Schiller,
Liberty, A Better Husband,
159.

8
. Goldstein, Dana,
The Teacher Wars
, 33.

9
. Walker, Ruth, “Why Wait? Single Women Want to Live in Style,”
Christian Science Monitor
, February 4, 1979. Via Israel,
Bachelor Girl.

10
. Faludi, Susan,
Backlash,
108.

11
. Gross, Jane, “Single Women: Coping With a Void,”
The New York Times
, April 28, 1987,
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/28/nyregion/single-women-coping-with-a-void.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
.

12
. Klinenberg, Eric,
Going Solo
, 5.

13
. Williamson, Kevin, “Five Reasons Why You're Too Dumb to Vote,”
National Review.com
, September 28, 2014,
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388945/five-reasons-why-youre-too-dumb-vote-kevin-d-williamson
.

14
. DePaulo, Bella, “That Spinster Stigma Study: Others are Intrusive or they Ignore You,”
Psychology Today
, June 10, 2010,
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/201006/spinster-stigma-study-others-are-intrusive-or-they-ignore-you
.

15
. Maria Mitchell Papers Diary 1854–1857; Box One, Folder One. Courtesy of the Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association.

16
. Gallagher, Maggie and Linda Waite,
The Case for Marriage
, New York: Crown, 2002, 52.

17
. Parker-Pope, Tara, “Married Cancer Patients Live Longer,”
New York Times
, September 24, 2013.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/married-cancer-patients-live-longer/?hpw&_r=1
.

18
. Gottlieb, Lori, “Marry Him! The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough,”
The Atlantic,
March 2008.

19
. Kreider, Rose M. and Renee Ellis, “Number, Timing, and Duration of Marriages and Divorces, 2009,” U.S. Census Bureay, May 2011,
http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/p70-125.pdf
.

20
. Israel,
Bachelor Girl,
42.

21
. Goldstein,
The Teacher Wars,
31.

22
. Burnap, George Washington,
The Sphere And Duties of Woman: A Course of Lectures
, Baltimore: John Murphy, 1848, 64. Via Chambers-Schiller,
Liberty, a Better Husband.

23
. Chambers-Schiller,
Liberty, a Better Husband,
50.

24
. Ibid, 55.

25
. Collins,
America's Women, 138.

26
. Rogers, Anna A., “Why American Marriages Fail,”
The Atlantic Monthly
, Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1907, via Coontz,
Marriage: A History
.

27
. Esfahani Smith, Emily, “Science Says Lasting Relationships Come Down to Two Basic Traits,”
TheAtlantic.com
,
November 9, 2014.

28
. Barker, Eric, “These Four Things Kill Relationships,”
Time.com
, August 26, 2014,
http://time.com/3174575/these-4-things-kill-relationships/
.

29
. Klinenberg,
Going Solo,
157.

30
. Cobbe, Frances Power, “Celibacy vs. Marriage,” in
Criminals, Idiots, Women & Minors,
Susan Hamilton, ed, 57, via Israel,
Bachelor Girl.

Chapter Six: For Richer

1
. Friedan,
The Feminine Mystique,
158.

2
. Rinehart, Mary Roberts, “A Home or a Career?”
Ladies Home Journal
, April 1921. Via “These Working Wives: The ‘Two-Job' Woman in Interwar Magazines,” a paper presented by Jane Marcellus in 2004.

3
. “Estimated Median Age at First Marriage, by Sex, 1890 to Present,” US Bureau of the Census, 2010.

4
. DePaulo,
Singled Out,
144.

5
. Brown, Campbell, “Sexism Sneaks In Over and Open Mic,”
Cnn.com
, November 19, 2008.

6
. “On Pay Gap, Millennial Women Near Parity—For Now,” Pew Research Center, December 11, 2013,
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/12/11/on-pay-gap-millennial-women-near-parity-for-now/
.

7
. Chambers-Schiller,
Liberty, A Better Husband,
68.

8
. Guy-Scheftall and Johnnetta Cole,
Words of Fire,
99.

9
. Gunning, Sandra,
Race, Rape, and Lynching,
122.

10
. Chambers Schiller,
Liberty, a Better Husband,
66.

11
. Ibid, 98.

12
. Rosin, Hanna, “The End of Men,”
The Atlantic
, July/August 2010,
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/308135/
.

13
. “Percentage Degrees Awarded to Women,”
The Washington Post
online, May, 2013,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2013/05/its_getting_better-degrees-women.jpg
.

14
. Mercado, Monica and Katherin Turk, “On Equal Terms: Educating Women at
the University of Chicago,” The University of Chicago Library,
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/webexhibits/OnEqualTerms/NoneDebateOverSexSegregation.html
.

15
. Rosenberg, Rosalind,
Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism
, 44.

16
. Bronski, Peter, “A Woman's Place,”
Vassar Alumnae Quarterly
, January 2011,
http://vq.vassar.edu/issues/2011/01/features/a-womans-place.html
.

17
. D'Emilio, John and Estelle B. Freedman,
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America
, 1988, 190.

18
. Israel,
Bachelor Girl,
30.

19
. Ibid., 39.

20
. Weiss, Sasha, “A Study in Farewells: Kristin Wiig and Peggy Olson,”
The NewYorker.com
, June 1, 2012,
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/06/a-study-in-farewells-kristen-wiig-and-peggy-olson.html
.

21
. Chambers-Schiller,
Liberty a Better Husband,
164.

22
. Venker, Suzanne, “Why Women Still Need Husbands,”
foxnews.com
, December 6, 2013,
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/12/06/why-women-still-need-husbands/
.

23
. “Many Millennials Say Women Are More Focused on Careers than Men,” in “On Pay Gap, Millennial Women Near Parity, Pew Research Center, December 10, 2013,
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/12/11/on-pay-gap-millennial-women-near-parity-for-now/sdt-gender-and-work-12-2013-0-08/
.

24
. Flock, Elizabeth, “Book Says Supreme Court Crashed Sonia Sotomayor's Personal Life,”
USNews.com
, July 17, 2012.

25
. Klein, Ezra, “Nine Facts About Marriage and Childbirth in the United States,”
The Washington Post,
March 25, 2013,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/25/nine-facts-about-marriage-and-childbirth-in-the-united-states/
.

26
. Ibid.

27
. Coe, Alexis, “Being Married Helps Professors Get Ahead, but Only if They're Male,”
TheAtlantic.com
, January 17, 2013.

28
. Miller, Claire Cain, “The Motherhood Penalty vs. The Fatherhood Bonus,”
The New York Times
, September 6, 2014.

29
. Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach, “I'm Not Your Wife! A New Study Points to a Hidden Form of Sexism,”
TheAtlantic.com
,
June 5, 2012.

30
. Rikleen, Lauren Stiller, “Are Working Women Held Back?”
Harvard Business Review,
December 2012.

31
. Alazraki, Melly, “Young Single Women Now Earn More than Men,”
DailyFinance.com
, September 1, 2010,
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/09/01/young-single-women-earn-more-than-men/
.

32
. Miller, Claire Cain, “The Motherhood Penalty vs. The Fatherhood Bonus,”
The New York Times
, September 6, 2014.

33
. Cardona, Mercedes M.,“Single Minded Marketing: A Multitrillion Dollar Opportunity,”
cmo.com
, April 17, 2013,
http://www.cmo.com/articles/2013/4/16/single_minded_marketing.html
.

34
. Swartz, Jon, “How Women are Changing the Tech World,”
USA Today,
June 6, 2012.

35
. “Indie Women,”
The Curve Report
, NBC Universal,
http://thecurvereport.com/category/films/indie-women/
.

36
. Bolick, Kate, “For Women, Is Home Really So Sweet?”
The Wall Street Journal
, February 18, 2012.

37
. “Field Guide to Women Homebuyers,”
Realtor.com
, June 2015,
http://www.realtor.org/field-guides/field-guide-to-women-homebuyers
.

38
. Elmer, Vickie, “Wed, in all but Finances,”
New York Times
, July 5, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/realestate/mortgages-wed-in-all-but-finances.html?_r=1&hp
.

39
. Coontz,
Marriage a History
, 168.

40
. Ibid., 169.

Chapter Seven: For Poorer

1
. Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams, “The Girls Obama Forgot,”
The New York Times,
July 7, 2014.

2
. Hollar, Julie, “Wealth Gap Yawns, and so does Media,” FAIR Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, June 1, 2010,
http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/wealth-gap-yawns8212and-so-do-media/
.

3
. Fairchild, Caroline, “Number of Fortune 500 Women CEOS Reaches Historic High,”
Fortune.com
, June 6, 2014,
http://fortune.com/2014/06/03/number-of-fortune-500-women-ceos-reaches-historic-high/
.

4
. Howard, Caroline, “The New Class of Female CEOs”
Forbes
, August 22, 2012,
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/
.

5
. Rivers, Caryl, “The End of Men? Not so Fast,”
The Huffington Post,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/caryl-rivers/the-end-of-men-eyewash_b_624309.html
.

6
. Luscombe, Belinda, “Workplace Salaries: At Last, Women on Top,”
Time
, September 1, 2010.

7
. Coontz, “The Myth of Male Decline,”
New York Times
, September 29, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/opinion/sunday/the-myth-of-male-decline.html?pagewanted=all
.

8
. “On Pay Gap, Millennial Women Near Parity for Now,” Pew Research Group, December 11, 2013,
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/12/11/on-pay-gap-millennial-women-near-parity-for-now/
. And “Do Men Really Earn More Than Women?”
Payscale.com
,
http://www.payscale.com/gender-lifetime-earnings-gap
.

9
. Coontz, “The Myth of Male Decline,”
New York Times
, September 29, 2012.

10
. Schwartz, Madeleine, “Opportunity Costs: The True Price of Internships,” Winter 2013,
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/opportunity-costs-the-true-price-of-internships
.

11
. DeParle, Jason, “Two Classes, Divided By I Do,”
New York Times
, July 7, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/us/two-classes-in-america-divided-by-i-do.html
.

12
. Confessore, Nick, “Tramps Like Them: Charles Murray Examines the White Working Class in ‘Coming Apart,' ”
New York Times
, February 10, 2012.