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"Where Have All the Good Men Gone?" Gender and Online Dating
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Kreager, Derek Cavanagh, Shannon Eileen Yen, John |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | Online dating platforms reduce many of the social and geographic barriers that exist in traditional dating settings, such as schools, work, neighborhoods, etc. In this study, we examined whether gender norms and preferences for more “socially desirable partners” benefit men and create a dating disadvantage for women in the earliest stages of dating. We tested this idea with six months of online dating data from a mid-sized southwestern city in the United States (8259 men and 6274 women). We found that both men and women tend to send messages to mating candidates who possess the most socially desirable sociodemographic characteristics (e.g., age, height, education, race, etc.) regardless of their own social desirability. We also found that men and women who make first contact connect with equally or more desirable partners than those who wait to be contacted. However, women are four times less likely to send messages than men. Finally, our findings suggested that socioeconomic similarities in longer-term unions result, in part, from relationship termination (i.e., non-reciprocity) rather than initial preferences for similar partners. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.pop.psu.edu/sites/pri/files/Kreager_Spotlight.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
