Paramount TV has picked up the rights to Rebecca Traister’s best-selling book “All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation,” Variety has reported.
Traister, who is a writer at large at New York Magazine and a contributing editor at Elle, will serve as an executive producer on the series. The book is an in-depth examination of the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women in the 21st century, particularly unmarried women. As publisher Simon & Schuster details, “Over the course of her vast research and more than a hundred interviews with academics and social scientists and prominent single women, Traister discovered a startling truth: the phenomenon of the single woman in America is not a new one. And historically, when women were given options beyond early heterosexual marriage, the results were massive social change — temperance, abolition, secondary education, and more.”
Traister’s book explores the reasons why only twenty percent of Americans are wed by age 29, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960. She is also the author of “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” which is about women and the 2008 election.
“I am really hopeful about the project, because I believe it’s important that the infinite variety of paths that the nation’s infinite variety of women are now taking through life — paths that no longer necessarily begin or end with marriage to men — are reflected in our popular culture,” Traister told Women and Hollywood.
Paramount TV President Amy Powell told Variety, “We are thrilled to introduce Rebecca’s unique voice as well as her distinctive and witty perspective on a woman’s life in the twenty-first century to television audiences.” But rather than waiting for Traister’s work to make its mark on the small screen, be sure to check out the book itself — the headline-making, timely work received great reviews and is well worth a read.
