Whether equivalent research exists in South Africa is unclear, but the pool of educated women versus men in the USA is growing inexorably larger, posing challenges in life, love and relationships. What it means is that, while economic equity is presumably finally in the offing, the gender imbalance in education is creating a demographic chasm in the USA – and most of the developed world. The scientific premise underpinning this is that people gravitate towards others with the same level of educational attainment. Which means that a good man will become harder and harder to find. Men are notoriously undiscriminating; women, inevitably more refined and sophisticated, are more choosy. So, what happens when the pool of eligible male graduates gets smaller and smaller? Read on to see the surprising comparisons – and learn how the Gini-gender-co-efficient already reflects the difference, (i.e. where attractiveness is looked upon as an economic asset). Taken to its ultimate sci-fi conclusion, we could end up with the antithesis of The Handmaid's Tale. That'll be one for the books. – Chris Bateman

A good man is getting even harder to find

By Gerard Baker

(The Wall Street Journal) – When my daughters were small they had a favourite bit of doggerel that prefigured some early feminist leanings.

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