Marriage Research: Being Married Helps Men Get Promoted, But Not Women

We've seen how marriage can help women live longer and stay healthier, but there may be one area where being married doesn't help -- getting ahead at work. A new study from the American Historical Association revealed that married female history professors wait longer to be promoted than unmarried female history professors. Married and unmarried male history professors get promoted at faster rates than their female counterparts, regardless of the women's marital status. After surveying more than 2,000 professors, researchers discovered that the married female history profs were promoted from associate to full professor in an average of 7.8 years, reported The Atlantic. Never-married women...