Growing up, I saw a lot of negative portrayals of “cat ladies” and “spinsters.” But as I’ve gotten older, I don’t know anyone happier than single, adult women. Now, science has my back.A new paper published in Social Psychological and Personality Science titled “Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves”: Gender Differences in Singles’ Well-Being said, “single women, on average, report higher levels of satisfaction with relationship status, life satisfaction, sexual satisfaction, and lower desire for a partner [than single men].”They add, “Overall, these findings suggest that women are, on average, happier in singlehood than men.”How do we know?The researchers looked at data from almost 6,000 single people a