--- title: The Rising Political Power of America's Single Women description: The rising political power of single women in the U.S., and how minorities end up with predatory loans and more. canonical: https://time.com/4238765/political-power-america-single-women/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-26T17:01:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:20.996Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The Rising Political Power of America's Single Women og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4238765/political-power-america-single-women/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Rising Political Power of America's Single Women twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Rising Political Power of America's Single Women by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 26, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 26, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Single women are America’s most powerful political force.**](http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/02/political-power-single-women-c-v-r.html) By Rebecca Traister in the Cut **2\.** [**Good credit or not, minority borrowers still end up with predatory loans.**](http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/predatory-lending-is-americas-newest-form-of-housing-discrimination) By Dwyer Gunn in Pacific Standard **3\.** [**What if businesses that serve the poor got a boost to their bottom line — making them a better investment?**](http://impactalpha.com/social-impact-incentives-aim-to-tilt-businesses-toward-the-needs-of-the-poor/) By Dennis Price at ImpactAlpha **4\.** [**Paid ‘re-entry’ internships are getting people — especially women — back into the workforce.**](http://www.fastcompany.com/3057081/the-future-of-work/how-paid-re-entry-programs-can-get-more-women-in-tech) By Lisa Rabasca Roepe in Fast Company **5\.** [**Uganda tried to turn off social media during an election. The people turned it back on.**](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/uganda-election-day-social-media-blackout-backlash-mobile-payments) By G.S. Phillips and Grace Atuhaire in Motherboard  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4238765/political-power-america-single-women/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4238765/political-power-america-single-women/"},"headline":"The Rising Political Power of America's Single Women","datePublished":"2016-02-26T17:01:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:20.996Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4238765/political-power-america-single-women/","keywords":["Innovation","women","poverty","Unemployment","Uganda"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4238765/political-power-america-single-women/","name":"The Rising Political Power of America's Single Women"}}]}] ```