> Eighty-two percent of the women in Inhorn’s sample were single, “with no partner in sight” (p. 19). In their own words, they were using egg freezing to “buy time” and hold onto their dream of heterosexual marriage with biologically related children. These women were a notably high achieving group: one-third of her sample had attended an Ivy League institution and nearly 80% had advanced degrees.
It seems like the central question is: why do they lack a partner? Some possible explanations could be:
1- They are too picky
2- They are undesirable to potential partners
3- They are unwilling or unable to mingle with potential partners
The author of the article seems to blame men for not being interested in these high-performing women (i.e. reason #2 above), while Inhorn seems to suggest some balance between #1 and #2.
While I don't belong to the cohort under discussion, I used to be very focused on my career and would not have been able to find a partner had I not met my wife in college.
In other words, I don't think reason #3 should be dismissed without further data, although personally I suspect reason #1 is also much more common than #2.