Women’s tendency for hypergame does not.
The problem, for women, in hypergamy, is that if they don’t lock down a male before they are thirty, their choices narrow considerably.
The men they rejected will have built their careers in their lost decade in their 20’s and become attractive when they hit thirty. However, that’s when women’s choices are narrowing and those men often make themselves unavailable during their thirties because they are focused on women in their twenties, now that they have access to them. This results in a lost decade for many women.
That situation only tends to start righting itself when both genders hit their forties. That’s why I state the smartest thing a woman can do is lock down a man they can be happy with when she is in her twenties.
I heartily agree with you