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Continue reading →: Single Women in Iran: Courage amidst Extraordinary Challenges
October 6, 2025 by Bella DePaulo Meet a brilliant and brave scholar and activist Recently, I received an email from MahSa Hariri, who described herself as “an Iranian women’s rights activist focusing on the lived experiences and challenges or single women.” I didn’t realize just how extraordinary and brave it…
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Continue reading →: Unfair Treatment of Solo Travelers
July 13, 2025 by Bella DePaulo Lately, I’ve been fantasizing about a solo trip to Hawaii toward the end of the year when, even here in sunny California, the days are not so sunny or warm. I spent some time on the Viator site, clicking various links to tours to read more…
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Continue reading →: What Project 2025 Has in Store for Anyone Who Is Not Married with Children
May 8, 2025 by Bella DePaulo Project 2025, the blueprint for so many of the policies and goals of the current Trump administration, is a document of nearly 900 pages. The White House, with its compliant Republican-led Congress, has been plowing its way through the Project 2025 agenda on immigration, border security,…
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Continue reading →: Marriage Considered Not Very Important to a Fulfilling Life, U.S. Surveys Show
April 22, 2025 by Bella DePaulo As we at Unmarried Equality advocate for the rights of people who are not married, we have an advantage that is not widely recognized: adults in the U.S. – and teens, too – do not see marriage as all that important to a fulfilling adult life.…
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Continue reading →: Single with No Kids? In the Political World, That May Be Wielded as an Insult
March 30, 2025 by Bella DePaulo Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG), Congressional Representative from Georgia and far-right troll, thought she had landed a devastating shaming blow to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), Congressional Representative from New York and progressive activist, when she pointed out that she had never married and does not have kids. (Here’s…


