Why Do More Women Favour Cohabitation or Singlehood Rather Than

Why do more women favour cohabitation or singlehood rather than traditional legal marriage?

A) More women are unable to find suitable men to form unions with these days and therefore remain single.
B) Women have more to gain from marriage and less to gain from paid work than in the past.
C) There is less gender inequality than in marriage.
D) Men are increasingly rejecting the idea of marriage thereby forcing women to enter common-law unions instead.