Do women prefer to be alone?

2. Women who live alone do better than men at friendship. Other research suggests that women sometimes prefer to live alone, even if they are in a committed romantic relationship or a marriage, because they want to feel free to meet up with their friends without running it by their partner first.

Do single women live longer?

We may have suspected it already, but now the science backs it up: unmarried and childless women are the happiest subgroup in the population. And they are more likely to live longer than their married and child-rearing peers, according to a leading expert in happiness.

Are men happier than women?

Researchers analyzed decades of national data on 47,000 men and women to create a statistical model that shows womens happiness decreases, while mens increases, exceeding womens by age 48.