A study has revealed that liberal women are much lonelier and more unhappy than conservative women.
According to a recent American Family Survey, just 12% of liberal women between the ages of 18-40 report that they are satisfied with their lives. Meanwhile, 37% of conservative women in the same age range report being satisfied with their lives.
The study also found that liberal women are a whopping three times more likely to report feeling loneliness at least a few times per week compared to conservative women.
🚨#BREAKING: Liberal women are more likely to feel lonely and unsatisfied with life, compared to their Moderate and Conservative counterparts.
Source: 2024 American Family Survey pic.twitter.com/kqnkMUkD3Z
— TSD (@SocraticDaily) February 14, 2025
Conservative women also report higher marriage rates, with liberal women being married at a rate of roughly 31%, compared to conservative women reporting being married at a rate of more than 51%.
The study also revealed that conservative women are more likely to prioritize family and church attendance, and are more likely to accept that there are different roles for men and women.
While the majority of conservatives could have predicted the results of this study, the data is an important indicator of the realities of different ideologies.
🇺🇸LIBERAL WOMEN ARE THE LEAST HAPPY—SHOCKING NO ONE
New research confirms what everyone already suspected: liberal women are the unhappiest group in America.
While married, religious, and conservative women report higher life satisfaction, their progressive counterparts are… pic.twitter.com/ulIfAzBEz9
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 14, 2025
Institute for Family Studies fellow Brad Wilcox, who also serves as a professor at the University of Virginia, responded to the study’s results in a statement to Fox News — pointing out that conservative women are much less likely to believe that they are victims of “larger structural realities or forces.”
“They’re also less likely to catastrophize about public events and concerns and more likely to think of themselves as captains of their own fate,” he added. “This ideological divide does not appear to be just a consequence of negative thinking; it also seems to flow from the fact that liberal young women are less likely to be integrated into core American institutions – specifically marriage and religion – that lend meaning, direction, and a sense of solidarity to women’s lives.”
Wilcox went on to note that “lower levels of marriage and churchgoing among liberal women may also have a hand in their elevated reports of loneliness, which, in turn, diminishes their odds of being happy.”
https://twitter.com/BradWilcoxIFS/status/1890147370975023444
The American Family Survey was conducted in 2024 with 3,000 American female respondents, and was released in mid February.
