Unmarried or single?

Differences in the number of men and women do not appear to affect the probability that they leave the single, which is larger and the proportion of men who remain unmarried for the equal status of women: 28 percent of all women 14 and older and 35 percent of all males of the same ages. Among those older than 50 years, which could be considered definitive celibacy, the percentage of single-from 9 to 10 percent-is similar between men and women. Only from the 40 years the proportion of people without spouses is higher among women than among men, 21 percent of women and 16 percent of men between 40 and 49 years not living with a couple.

Among those older than 60, the difference is more pronounced:
58 percent of women and 25 per cent of men. Is that in middle age is gradually felt the effects of separation and divorce and widowhood, both very strong women, both because they live longer than men, because it is far more likely that they, if widowed or if separated, re-united, usually with younger women.