“It struck me as odd because the women seemed to have a lot more going for them, which is my way of saying they were better looking and better company,” he says over the phone from New York. “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.”īirger had started noticing that he was around far more single women than men. But it could just be a numbers game, she says (though Birger will say these two things are linked). 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, as the business journalist Jon Birger relates in his book Date-onomics, if an educated woman wants to form a long-term partnership with a man of similar education, the numbers are stacked against her.Ĭat, who works in social media and graduated last year, says of her group of female friends, “only one of them has a boyfriend and all really attractive, fun girls, clever, educated, and can’t find a boyfriend. It’s hard to write about this without sounding like you believe young women must place finding a husband above forging a successful career (I don’t), or you believe more men should be admitted to university at the expense of women to plug the husband gap (I don’t), or that marrying someone with a lower level of education is a terrible thing (I don’t believe that either).
How great to have so many clever, educated young women spilling out every year, but there could be negative consequences, as a new book, Date-onomics, points out: there may not be enough educated men to go around. “You would look around tutorials or lectures and there would be one or two token guys.” While there are some degrees, particularly in science and engineering subjects, that are overwhelmingly filled with male students, the general trend in many countries is for more women to go to university than men. “There were a lot of girls at my university,” she says. It was the same, she noticed, on her friends’ courses. There were, says Cat, perhaps one or two male students on her English degree.
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