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How does that make sense? Are there significantly more young men than women? Or do the women date older men?

• stuckinhell 3y ago
  Yea they date older men or other women.
  • fnimick 3y ago
    Or multiple women dating the same man, either knowingly, or thinking they are the only one.
• antisthenes 3y ago
  > How does that make sense? Are there significantly more young men than women? Or do the women date older men? Yes, yes, and multiple women can "date" one man.
• tristor 3y ago
  > Or do the women date older men? Yes. This isn't even new, this has been the case for decades. The effects aren't usually heavily pronounced (spouses are usually within 10 years of age of each other), but in almost every marriage on record where the two participants are not of the exact same age, the woman is younger than the man. I think the Internet likely changed things or accelerated some trends, but I'm not a social scientist. But this shouldn't surprise anyone. There's the semi-confirmed belief that women mature faster than men (emotionally/socially) that has stood in to explain this for decades, who knows, it might even be true.
• Volundr 3y ago
  This is an important question the article doesn't even seen to try to answer. It does seem to rule out the "older men" theory as a complete explanation: > Young women are also dating and marrying slightly older men, carrying on a tradition that stretches back more than a century. The average age at first marriage is around 30 for men, 28 for women, according to census figures. If the average difference 8s only 2 years, that doesn't explain the whole gap, and its remarkable just how quickly people are to age difference must be the whole story. So what is it? Are young women less willing to report to a stranger they are single? More likely to report they are in a relationship than just dating? Something else? It's a shame the article does no curiosity about this.
  • rednerrus 3y ago
    If 20% of the men are in "relationships" with 80% of the women, this would help to account for some of it.
    • Volundr 3y ago
      Sure that would explain it, if that were true. It's not in the article however, and I'm unaware of any study that supports it. Without data backing it up the suggestion that (on average) 1 in 5 men is simultaneously in a relationship with 4 women just an assumption, no different than the many people in this thread assuming those women must be with older men.
• expertentipp 3y ago
  They date small pool of desirable men.