But for women and men who do want to get married or have a committed relationship, it can be frustrating. "I'm not trying to be the morality police, and I'll even go so far as to say that this isn't entirely bad," says Birger. The current hot topic seems to be our so-called hookup culture-a large amount of people preferring casual relationships to lasting, committed ones. What, exactly, is the problem single women and men are having with dating right now? Why are we focusing so much on college degrees? "I definitely do not believe that college education makes someone a quality guy," Birger says. "What's really interesting is that the gender ratios are more lopsided in rural states like Montana (52 percent more college-educated women than men, ages 22 to 29) and West Virginia (61 percent more college-educated women than men) than in urban states like California and New York," he says. In the book, Birger points out that there are four young college-educated women for every three young college-educated men in our country. Aside from revealing a statistical "man shortage" (more on that below), Birger explains how college-educated men and woman often limit their own dating options, and (perhaps most surprisingly) says that the key to expanding your dating pool could be as simple as a trip to your local suburbs. Census Bureau and other social surveys in order to shed some light on dating challenges in America. In his new book, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game, author and former Fortune and Money columnist Jon Birger crunches some numbers from the U.S.
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