Here's the Real Reason Why So Many Women are Single

Mic ^ | 09/16/2015 | Kate Hakala

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"I know lots of single men," Cara, 26, a resident of Brooklyn, New York, told Mic. "It's just... most are of little or no interest to me as anything other than a hookup."

Tired of old ways: The somewhat revolutionary notion that women are actually deciding not to marry is something that wouldn't be possible if the value of marriage itself hadn't changed drastically over the years.

"When women's life choices were highly constrained, they had little negotiating power," Pepper Schwartz, a sociology professor at the University of Washington, wrote for CNN. "They had to marry or were seen as damaged ... It's different now. While most women still want marriage, they don't want it at just any price. They don't want it if it scuttles their dreams."

That, in part, is due to marriage no longer being a must for women's social and financial standing. "I don't think hookup culture is damning for long-term commitment," Lisa, 27, said. "I think it's a response to the large obsolescence of marriage as an institution for women. We don't need to be economically or socially dependent on men."

That carries out through the numbers. Compared to their grandparents' generation, millennial women are significantly more likely to have a bachelor's degree and be a part of the labor force.

"I think a lot of us just don't think marriage is that important because it doesn't offer the security it once did," Norah, 27, told Mic. "It's not as necessary anymore because I can work. I can support myself."

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It's not that there aren't enough men to explain waning marriage stats — there also aren't enough women who want to walk down the aisle.

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> “I think a lot of us just don’t think marriage is that important because it doesn’t offer the security it once did,” Norah, 27, told Mic. “It’s not as necessary anymore because I can work. I can support myself.” Oh so now you admit you were just using us all along, eh?

Alpha sex, beta checks.

[grey_whiskers]

Aging is relentless. If you don’t marry well within a scant 10 year window (which really isn’t long), options and benefits dwindle fast.

Men age like wine, women age like milk.

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>>My daughter is 30 earns a six figure salary and so wants to get married. But she is so tired of waiting around to meet a man that wants to get married like her, that she is quitting her job in 2 weeks and going to SE Asia for 6 months or more.<<

I notice women like to mention their education and career when it is impressive. But do men really give a damn about that?

This is an example of women's childishness and solipsism. They find education and career arousing in a man, because women marry *up*; so they naturally assume that men find it attractive/arousing as well.

They're wrong.