The issues for older women especially successful ones are pretty complex.
Women are pretty choosy (not a bad thing) about who they marry and as more and more women experience career success, the number of men that meet their criteria declines.
"Taking an economic approach, the authors argue that there's a fundamental mismatch between what available men in the United States have to offer and what available women in the United States are willing to accept. Maybe, they propose, women aren't getting married because the highly desirable men are taken."
"According to the study, the kind of men that single women likely would marry, if they married—i.e., the "synthetic spouses"—were not only 26 percent more likely to hold a job, and more highly educated, but they also had nearly a 55 percent higher income than what the available men in the U.S. actually make. In other words, from an economic standpoint, the dating pool lacks the kind of men that women might be particularly interested in attaching to, for the long-haul."
In contrast, young poor women (girls) having children out of wedlock often choose to because the way the system works, they economically benefit by not being married. Because incomes are combined when looking at qualifications for entitlements, women are "better" off not marrying the fathers of their children (until the guy disappears). We see this all the time in our low income housing properties.
Finally, it is strange that for men, a low income makes it hard to find a wife and for women a high income makes it hard to find a husband. Perhaps as humans we have not adopted to the "brave new world" we live in.
