Our thanks to Mike P for this. The start of the piece:
A dearth of marriagable men has left an “oversupply” of educated women taking desperate steps to preserve their fertility, experts say.
The first global study into egg freezing found that shortages of eligible men [J4MB translation: ‘eligible’ men are well-off, or have good professional prospects. Women’s hypergamy is as strong as ever, and increases as women themselves become better-off] were the prime reason why women had attempted to take matters into their own hands.
Experts said “terrifying” demographic shifts had created a “deficit” of educated men and a growing problem of “leftover” professional women, with female graduates vastly outnumbering males in in many countries.
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