Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game is a new book by financial and tech journalist Jon Birger, wherein he "explains America’s curiously lopsided dating and marriage market—and what every single, college-educated, heterosexual woman needs to know" about it all.

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"In 2012, women earned 1,025,729 bachelor’s degrees versus just 765,317 for men (see the table on page 193). In other words, there were 34 percent more women than men who graduated from college. What’s more, this gender gap is expected to grow even larger in years to come: The NCES predicted that women in the class of 2023 will outnumber men by 47 percent. Of course, if economics and biology are behind the college gender gap—and not some type of reverse discrimination against men—it begs the question of whether the college gender gap is actually a problem in need of a solution. In other words, should we even care that fewer men than women attend college? When I posed this question to Goldin, her answer was an emphatic no. “I don’t see any obvious reason to worry about it,” Goldin said. “There aren’t any impediments or hurdles or barriers or prejudices or discriminatory factors or regulations standing in the way [of men going to college].”

Hear that lads? huge disparity in outcomes doesn't mean there's a discrimination or other systemic issues, it's just biology! dudes just don't want to study and make good money, doctors say so!

Bernice Sandler, the celebrated women’s rights advocate who was the driving force behind the passage of Title IX, gave me much the same answer. “No, the idea of a college is to educate people,” Sandler told me. “When you choose between people to come to the college, you choose the people who are most likely to benefit from it.” Sandler went so far as to cast doubt on the notion that female-heavy gender ratios have any negative impact on college life. “Students don’t notice the difference,” Sandler said. “In a large college, you’re never going to know [that there are more women than men].”

Did anyone see the diversity officer? Last I saw her she was muttering something about "incels" under her breath. I'm sure she'll be on the case pronto.

But of course, who is most affected if not the intended audience and chief protagonists of the book? college educated women:

Another dating-market quirk that confused me even more than the general oversupply of 30-something and 40-something women is who these women tend to be. In my experience, a disproportionate number of the women who claim to have the most difficulty dating after 30 are those who have the most going for them. They are smart, fun, kind, and attractive. A lot of them are probably more physically fit at 40 than they were at 24.

The poor, poor women who are forced to "date down", aka consider leaving their privileged gender role that has them expecting a provider mate that just isn't materializing. My heart goes out to them, clearly they're the real victims in this.