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Growing mating gap between educated women and available men
Timeframe: Already happening, will accelerate over next 10-20 years
What's Changing
Women increasingly out-earning and out-educating men while maintaining hypergamous mating preferences (wanting partners of equal or higher status), creating a shortage of 'suitable' male partners.
Driving Forces
Women now 60% of college enrollment, trending toward 67%
Young men increasingly NEET (not in education, employment, or training)
40% increase in NEET men during pandemic vs 7% for women
Cultural shift hasn't adjusted female mate selection preferences
Winners
- High-achieving men who become increasingly rare and valuable
- Dating coaches and relationship services
- Alternative family structure services (sperm donors, single mother support)
- AI companionship and dating app companies
Losers
- Average men who fall behind educationally/economically
- Women seeking traditional partnerships with successful men
- Traditional marriage and family formation rates
- Society overall due to declining birth rates
How to Position Yourself
For men: Invest heavily in education, career, and emotional intelligence
For women: Consider expanding criteria or accept different relationship structures
For businesses: Build services addressing new relationship realities
For investors: Bet on alternative family/dating solutions
Early Signals to Watch
Example Implementation
“A successful female lawyer in her late 30s can't find a partner at her level and chooses to have a child via sperm donor rather than compromise on her standards or remain childless.”
Related Knowledge
Men's Group Facilitation Service
Men lack safe spaces to discuss emotions, shame, and personal challenges, leading to isolation and stunted emotional development that hurts their relationships and careers.
The Secretary Problem for Dating
A mathematical framework from optimal stopping theory that determines when to stop searching and commit to a dating partner, based on sampling 37% of your dating pool to establish a benchmark.
Date Like a Scientist
A systematic approach to dating that involves running experiments with different types of partners to discover who actually makes you happy long-term, rather than relying on preconceived notions of your 'type'.
F*ck the Spark Philosophy
A counter-intuitive approach to dating that rejects the requirement for immediate chemistry or 'sparks' and instead focuses on slow-burn connections that develop over time through compatibility and shared experiences.
Create a dating app profile that stands out from 90% of other profiles
Significantly more matches and meaningful conversations, dates with people you're actually compatible with
Become genuinely interesting to talk to on dates through curiosity and engagement
Dates where the other person talks enthusiastically about themselves and wants to see you again