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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Book Summary:
"It’s not that he’s just not that into you—it’s that there aren’t enough of him. And the numbers prove it. Using a combination of demographics, statistics, game theory, and number-crunching, Date-onomics tells what every single, college-educated, heterosexual, looking-for-a-partner woman needs to know: The “man deficit” is real. It’s a fascinating, if sobering read, with two critical takeaways: One, it’s not you. Two, knowledge is power, so here’s what to do about it.
    
The shortage of college-educated men is not just a big-city phenomenon frustrating women in New York and L.A. Among young college grads, there are four eligible women for every three men nationwide. This unequal ratio explains not only why it’s so hard to find a date, but a host of social issues, from the college hookup culture to the reason Salt Lake City is becoming the breast implant capital of America." [/quote]

That book is completely bullshit because it wants to have its cake and eat it too. It wants women to be equal earners and equally educated with men (great idea - truly fully support this but hasn't been this historic norm)  but it doesn't want women to do what men have done since the beginning of time (date and marry someone of lower education/lower earners).

So yes 'it is you'. "you" are free to be as open minded as men when it comes to dating (i.e. change the historical norm for women just as the female education/earning gap has changed over history), which would relieve pressure in the 'market place'.

Well there is truth to what you say, there are additional nuances as well.  When men choose to marry less educated  Women, often and less lucrative careers, they often gain the ability to dedicate more of their time to their careers, and less time to managing the household and raising children.  At this time, it seems far less customary for women who marry less educated man to have that same ability, due to our cultures gender stereotyping about who should perform a professional and domestic roles.   As that changes over time, hopefully men and women alike will be feeling more free to be flexible and their professional and domestic rolls, to suit their individual preferences and skills, and not just a gender stereotype.  At this time, it appears in many communities that it is fine for a man to marry his professional peer or someone who is less successful, but it would seem emasculating for a man to marry a woman who is more professionally successful and whose career is more responsible for supporting the family and their lifestyle.  Changes slow, but hopefully coming.

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