Least surprising research results ever
Actually, there might be a slight reason to find this news surprising. I think a lot of us live in liberal parts of the country where these attitudes are muted, so it might actually be surprising to find out that single women ages 25-35 are often painfully stigmatized, no doubt especially in more conservative areas. The researchers at Texas Tech University interviewed 32 never-married women, and found that around age 25, their subjects began to face pretty ugly social stigma for not having snagged a husband yet. The idea that women’s main and often sole source of validation comes from being picked by a man hasn’t gone away by a long shot in our culture.