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I am not an expert at demographics (and am not intending to discount it at all) but to me it seems to be also a networking issue as guys have a built in network called the yeshiva system which is much more easily used to their advantage. As girls grow older their seminary ties tend to fall away and the amount of (helpful) contacts are much more limited. They tend to be much more dependant on the shadchanim. Out of town girls are hit even harder by this problem for obvious reasons. While this doesn’t completely explain the disparity it does explain why many girls aren’t getting dates.