Most of the Google hits seem to be within the past year, so I guess the term “freemale” is a fairly recent coining, referring to, quoting The Telegraph, “women are chosing to live a single life rather than share their money and time”.
It is out in force today, with British Office of National Statistic figures indicating that the percentage of women aged between 25 and 44 living along has now reached 8 per cent, double the figure of 20 years ago. “the ONS report cited recent research which showed that two-thirds of freemales feel that they can enjoy a happy and fulfilled life without a partner.” (Well yeah, I’ve been doing that for nearly all of the past 20 years, and looks like a good idea to me.)
Taking a more rounded view is Jane Shilling in The Times – who looks back to the post-WWI “spinsters”, and how they pioneered news ways of single female life.
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