His first book - DATE-ONOMICS: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game - was published by Workman Publishing in the fall of 2015. I’m just trying to explain why the world is the way it is.Jon Birger is a Fortune magazine contributing writer, freelance journalist, and public speaker. The reality is that college-educated women who are really only willing to date college-educated men are in a really bad dating market. I’m arguing that this is craziness and that this is not a strategic problem.
There are all of these things that women should be doing, and the reason they’re still single is because they’re not doing them. If you return his text right away or don’t return his text right away or pick the restaurant or don’t pick the restaurant. If you read dating advice guides, all offer some variations of the rules. It’s being driven by lopsided gender ratios among college grads. I don’t have an opinion on why teen sex rates are going down, but I can tell you I am confident that if pop culture were driving the hookup culture among adults you would see the effect among teenagers as well.
A big argument of my book is that the college- and post-college hookup culture is largely a byproduct of these gender ratios. There’s a ton of social science that’s been done on sex ratios and the big takeaway is that men are more likely to play the field and delay marriage when women are in oversupply. In terms of the impact, it doesn’t just make it statistically harder for educated women to find a match. In fact, the lopsidedness is actually worse in some rural states like Montana and West Virginia than it is in urban states like California and New York. Nationally, among millennials, there are four college-grad women for every three college-grad men.
Q: Where is the man deficit the worst and how do lopsided gender ratios impact people’s drive?īirger: I know people who live in cities like New York think this is a phenomenon unique to them. Initially, I thought this was a New York story or a Jon Birger circle of friends story, but it’s more universal than that.
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