“There’s a group to thank for August’s blockbuster jobs report: women.” That’s how CNBC opened its coverage of the latest employment numbers.
The data was clear: Women accounted for 158,000 of the 162,000 jobs added to the American economy in August—or 98 percent of the total. CNBC called it “the latest sign of the growing power of women in the labor market.”
You might expect me, a professional matchmaker, to look at those numbers and panic. After all, if women keep advancing economically while men fall behind, who exactly are all these successful women going to marry?
I hear some version of this question almost every day. Throughout my 19-years-long career, which has included running a successful matchmaking company, writing several books, and hosting a hit Netflix show, I have set up hundreds of marriages and spoken to thousands of single women. These women often tell me that they just want a man they can look up to. “I don’t need him to be rich,” they say, “but he has to be at least as successful as I am.” They go on to tell me that they are afraid they won’t respect a man if he makes less than she does.
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