“After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was true until after World War II. But middle-class white women married less and later.”

American journalist

Rebecca Traister is an American journalist who writes about U.S. politics, especially questions affecting women. She is a writer-at-large for New York magazine and has often appeared as a commentator on cable news. She is the author of two bestsellers, All the Single Ladies and Good and Mad. Her work focuses on politics and the public life of women, and she is known for writing and speaking on those themes across print and television.