"For a rising generation young women, the sky is the limit. Women can be anything and have everything. They are outpacing their male peers in higher education and earning the corner office at work. Intelligent, driven, assertive women are succeeding at just about everything they do--except relationships. Why are so many men afraid to date smart women? Modern men claim to want smarts, success, and independence in romantic partners. Or so says the data collected by scientists and dating websites. If that's the case, why are so many independent, successful women winning in life, but losing in love? Journalist Jenna Birch has finally named the perplexing reason: 'the love gap'--that confusing divide between the women men say they want to date and who they actually commit to. Backed by extensive data, research, in-depth interviews with experts and real-life relationship stories, The love gap is the first book to explore the most talked-about dating trend today and offer real-world advice for navigating it"--Jacket flap.
Overall I thought it was an interesting theory, however since I am in a long term relationship I didn't find the book useful or added to the problematic conversation of relationships. Perhaps if I was single I would feel differently.