<p>Summary of Rebecca Traister’s All the Single Ladies award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister started <em>All the Single Ladies</em> about the twenty-first century phenomenon of the American single woman. It was the year the proportion of American women who were married dropped below fifty percent; and the median age of first marriages which had remained between twenty and twenty-two years old for nearly a century (1890-1980) had risen dramatically to twenty-seven.</p>