article: Are There Not Enough Men Worth Marrying?

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Do Women Face a Shortage of Men Worth Marrying?

Where have all the "good men" gone? New research suggests economic differences between unmarried women and available men.

www.psychologytoday.com

Taking an economic approach, the authors argue that there's a fundamental mismatch between what available men in the United States have to offer and what available women in the United States are willing to accept. Maybe, they propose, women aren't getting married because the highly desirable men are taken.

So how bad is it? According to the study, the kind of men that single women likely would marry, if they married—i.e., the "synthetic spouses"—were not only 26 percent more likely to hold a job, and more highly educated, but they also had nearly a 55 percent higher income than what the available men in the U.S. actually make. In other words, from an economic standpoint, the dating pool lacks the kind of men that women might be particularly interested in attaching to, for the long-haul.

 

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Explains why guys that have their act and life together usually do pretty well dating these days