Single Women Are Quickly Becoming the ‘Evangelicals’ of the Democratic Party

[spooky3]

55. Only two groups, even "roughly"? That is way too over-simplified and doesn't help

anyone interested in motivating members of this group to vote for a given candidate.

Many women who are single/divorced/widowed but aren't young are well-educated or highly experienced in demanding careers. Some have children at home; many more have children who are adults or they did not choose to have children at all. A small subgroup of this larger group are executive women, who are far more likely to be unmarried and child-free than their male counterparts, who often have very "traditional" families, where the wife is at home or in a "supportive" job. These women are not looking for a husband in order to survive economically; they may not be interested in "coupling" at all, either because that's not what they want, or they do, but they haven't found suitable single men who are their peers. Some are LBGT. Many of them came of age during the first wave of feminism and they fully understand what is at stake.

I personally know dozens of these women. They are out there, maybe not in the numbers as the other two groups the author describes, but far too many to ignore. They have been invisible too long. All of these subgroups (and others) need to be understood if a political party is to be responsive to them.