Um, except that this is an antiquated narrative that hasn't been true for many decades. Here's the results of some of the actual data on this:
"But for women born since 1960, things are different. College graduates and women with higher earnings are now more likely to marry than women with less education and lower wages, although they generally marry at an older age. The legal profession is one big exception to this generalization. Female attorneys are less likely to ever marry, to have children, or to remarry after divorce than women in other professions. But an even higher proportion of male attorneys are childless, suggesting there might be something about this career that is unfriendly to everyone’s family life, not just women’s. For career women in other fields the independence effect has evaporated.9"
"In fact, by the late 1990s more than one-third of women aged thirty-five to forty-four were living with younger men."
Coontz, Stephanie. Marriage, a History (p. 285). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
And dating apps, which are typically about 70-90% men, are hardly representative of the real world. For the most part, women care about a man being a good person a whole lot more than they do his bank account (they are making their own money) or his looks, as long as he is within basic acceptable levels of hygiene and presentation. Men refuse to believe this - despite being told this over and over again by women - because then it leaves them a scapegoat when his personality doesn't stack up.
Women today would much rather stay single than link their lives with a guy who doesn't value them as a person, and who doesn't value equality. Becoming a wife is quite often a not so great deal for women - which is why so many are waiting to do that, or not doing it at all - or never doing it again after they divorce or are widowed.
"More women than ever before are marrying for the first time at age thirty, forty, fifty, and even sixty. Feminist icon Gloria Steinem married for the first time at the age of sixty-six. It is simply not true that high-achieving women are especially at risk for a lonely old age."
Coontz, Stephanie. Marriage, a History (p. 284). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
