As more women – lawyers, for instance – graduate from university than men, does it or will it create a problem with dating?
The brief answer is “Yes”, according to a new book called “Date-Onomics”, which makes the equally simply point that there just may not be enough men to go around.
In New Zealand, for instance, over 60 per cent of the law graduates are women. Obviously they’re not all looking for lawyer husbands, but the statistics are similar in other degrees too.
Author John Birger takes one example:
Cat, who works in social media and graduated last year, says of her group of female friends, “only one of them has a boyfriend and [the others are] all really attractive, fun girls, clever, educated, and can’t find a boyfriend. It’s really odd.” She thinks it has a lot to do with dating apps such as Tinder, “where everyone’s thinking there’s something better around the corner”. But it could just be a numbers game, she says (though Birger will say these two things are linked). “Maybe because there is more choice of girls than there ever was, it’s more difficult to find a guy because the pool is smaller.”
Birger at first thought it was just a big city problem in placves like LA or London. But in fact the figures show that the numbers of educated women to men is pretty much the same not just in the US, but also elsewhere.
“Across young people, age 30 and under, [there are] about four college grad women for every three college grad men. In many cases, this gender gap is even bigger in rural states than in urban ones. It’s not just the US, it’s most western countries, whether it’s Italy, the UK, Australia.”
Ini the UK a record number of women outnumbered men, with nearly 58,000 more women than men. “In the vernacular of the bestselling dating manuals, it’s not that He’s Just Not Into You,” writes Birger. “It’s that There Aren’t Enough of Him.”
Source: The Guardian
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