Unreformed, marriage, explains sociologist Lisa Wade, is “a moment of subordination for women more so than men, [because women] subordinate themselves and their careers to their relationship, their children, and the careers of their husbands.” Single, childless women are the only women who report that they have the time and freedom to pursue interests, ambitions, and hobbies at the same rate as married heterosexual men do. After divorces, men are twice as likely to remarry, whereas women are less likely to want to remarry.
