Single Professional Women: A Global Phenomenon Challenges and Opportunities

This paper presents the globalization of elite single professional women (SPW) as the first new global sociological phenomenon of the twenty-first century. We trace the economic roots of the phenomenon and how female empowerment interacts with the psycliological prerequisites fox mating. We then trace how the phenomenon is being expressed outside of the United States in India Poland and Germany. We conclude by putting these observations into a historical perspective and briefly listing possible strategies for responding adapting and maximizing ones options. (authors)