Younger women may find it hard to imagine that only 50 years ago a women getting a credit card, much less a mortgage, without her husband’s or father’s signature was almost unheard of. Young women half a century ago would find it equally incomprehensible that women today not only buy their own homes, but go to college at a rate higher than that of men, enjoy substantially higher incomes, and often defer marriage until after they are established in their career or eschew it entirely while choosing to have children outside the construct of a traditional marriage.

Since the mid 1990’s, single women have purchased homes at a rate twice that of single men. In 2018, the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) 2018 report “Home Buyer and Seller Generational