The “dearth of marriageable men” is the direct result of a legal system that makes marriage a monumentally bad business arrangement for men, along with the legion of females who willingly use government as a substitute for a husband and father.
Bingo.
That is the 19th Amendment for you. Women should not have the vote. Period. They have biological imperatives that cause them, in the aggregate, to vote for security and protection for themselves and their children. A subdivision of that is they vote for the government to make people “be nice.” My wife a long time ago told me that and I have heard it from other women since and have read it more recently from women in blogs and in the conservative press.