A study by a University of Michigan research who studies evolution and how it relates to contemporary behavior has found that in areas in which young women outnumber young men, hemlines rise.
Show some leg, ladies. Sex sells! Well, turns out all it that sex sells is sex. Although the hemlines rise, marriage rates don’t because young men feel less pressured to settle down since there are many more women to choose from. However, when these men reach their 30s they’re settling down. In areas where women outnumber men, more older men are married. But don’t get your hopes up late-to-middle aged women. According to the researcher, the higher marital rates for older men likely benefit women who are much younger since older men still prefer partners with higher reproductive potential.
In a place where the men are outnumbered, ladies? Either vow to beat evolution or move your ass outta there!
The paper “When Men are Scarce, Good Men are Even Harder to Find: Life History, the Sex Ratio, and the Proportion of Men Married," appears in the current issue of the Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology.
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