Financial burdens of being single stress out most women: study

Women would rather accept the “singles tax” than couple up.

The “singles tax” — the higher costs that singles pay financially supporting themselves — recently rose to over $7,000, according to Zillow, but women would still rather be on their own.

A new study conducted by Qualtrics on behalf of Intuit Credit Karma found that while many single women admitted that the financial burden of being financially independent is a major cause of stress in their lives, they still prefer to be single.

“The makeup of women’s financial lives has shifted, likely due to a shift in economic factors, like housing affordability and the rising cost of higher education,” Courtney Alev,…