For a variety of reasons, there have always been more widows than widowers in most societies, but in the latter half of the twentieth century, the prevalence and duration of widowhood increased dramatically.

Today 80% of all married women in the most technologically advanced countries can expect to outlive their husbands, many for as long as twenty years! If, as Shakespeare said, there are seven stages in the lives of men, for women of the modern Western world there is now an eighth – widowhood.

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