Your Status as a Single Person Is a Diversity Issue

In many workplaces, single people do not get treated fairly

Bella DePaulo
Fourth Wave
Published in
8 min readOct 1, 2021

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Get married, have kids, stay married. That’s the script for how adult lives are supposed to unfold. Never mind that in the U.S., the script maps onto the real lives of fewer and fewer people all the time. Nearly half of all adults 18 and older are legally single, and more and…

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Bella DePaulo
Fourth Wave

“America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience,” according to the Atlantic. SINGLE AT HEART book coming on Dec 5, 2023. www.belladepaulo.com