There are four women graduating from college for every three men, and 33% more women are in the dating market. When I dug into the census numbers, I discovered this was an ‘everywhere’ phenomenon. I thought it might have something to do with New York and the disproportionate number of women in the city. These women claimed to never get asked out at all. I couldn’t figure out why dating was so much harder for women than men. The women had more going for them dating-wise, and they were unhappily single. At Fortune, there were more women than men. A graduate of Brown University, Jon lives with his family in Larchmont, N.Y.ĭownload/listen, and check out the show notes for EP348: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game. He was named one of the “Power Players in Technology Business Media” by AlwaysOn Network.Ī familiar face and voice on television and radio, Jon has appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America, BBC World Service, CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, National Public Radio, and Fox News. My podcast guest, Jon Birger, is the author of “DATE-ONOMICS: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game.” A former senior writer at both Fortune and Money, Jon has also written for Barron’s, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, New York Magazine, Time, and The Washington Post. This has lead to a demographic mismatch for those who want to date at the same educational level, according to the Washington Post.Is dating just a numbers game, where women far outnumber men? If so, what can you do about it? A lot, says author Jon Birger. The tenth city on the men's list, Raleigh N.C., had 141 women per 100 men, higher than any ranking on the women's list.īirger attributes this to the fact that women have been attending college at higher rates than men since the 1980s. took the top spot for the men's list, where there are a whopping 171 college-educated women per 100 men. The San Francisco Bay Area proved to be a very popular location for dating for women, with three of its cities landing on the list.įort Lauderdale, Fla.
cities for dating for womenĪt the top of the list for women was San Jose, Calif., where there iare 112 men per 100 women. The newspaper published a list of the top 10 cities for dating for men and women, respectively, based off of information from Birger and the American Community Survey. The Washington Post recently spoke to Jon Birger, author of a new book called "Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game," where he looked at the respective dating pools for college-educated people ages 22-29.
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