[lbo-talk] Run for the border

[JBrown72073 at cs.com]

Jenny Brown wrote:
>> The pressure on women to marry is already enormous, health insurance  
>> simply adds to that suffocating weight.
>
>But the share of the U.S. population that's never been married has  
>been rising. In 1990, 18.9% of women had never been married; in 2005, 
>21.6%. And the health insurance environment has never been harsher.
>
>Doug

Although I'm sure it's not the main factor, this would be consistent with the 
narrowing gender benefits gap in full-time employment--health insurance is 
less likely to come with a job, but also less likely to be gender-biased than, 
say, 25 years ago.  (As I recall, it seems to be loosely tracking the gender 
pay gap.)

Jenny Brown

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