The median age at first marriage for a woman today is 24.5 years old. For her groom, its 26.7 years old . Demographers say that both economic and cultural changes are at work . The well-paid jobs than once enabled high school graduates to support families are mostly gone. Stagnant wages have led many men to put off marriage.
Young women have more alternatives to motherhood than ever .
In 1890 it was 26.1 for men and 22.0 for women.