A new study from Harvard researchers shows that marriage, while on a massive decline in the US, shows an increased connection to happiness and overall well-being in women.

Among men, just 5% took their wife’s last name and less than 1% hyphenated both names. Survey findings show 79% of American women took their husband’s last name after marriage. Alamy The ...

I reflected on this when reading an essay by Lyz Lenz adapted from her 2024 book This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life. In her view, marriage limits women but favors men.

Almost 80% of American women in opposite-sex marriages change their last name after saying "I do," according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

Women keeping their last name upon marriage gained popularity with the feminism movement in the 1960s and 1970s, with some changing their maiden last names to something else entirely since that ...

Marriage is good for women’s physical and mental health. A large new longitudinal study published in Global Epidemiology found that marriage helps to reduce death rate by a third for females ...

At the same time, marriage rates factored by political party have changed drastically over the years. In 1940, about 80% of both Republicans and Democrats ages 30-50 were married. By 1999, that ...