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[Data & Analytics](/news?category=data-analytics) # Dating Apps' Gender Imbalance: Women Withdraw as Men Persist By [DII Data Team](/author/data-analytics)· October 13, 2025· 5 min read [](https://x.com/intent/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.datingindustryinsights.com%2Fnews%2Fstudy-men-go-on-more-dates&text=Dating%20Apps'%20Gender%20Imbalance%3A%20Women%20Withdraw%20as%20Men%20Persist)[](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.datingindustryinsights.com%2Fnews%2Fstudy-men-go-on-more-dates)[](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.datingindustryinsights.com%2Fnews%2Fstudy-men-go-on-more-dates) A A ## Key Points - • Research from DatingNews.com and the Kinsey Institute reveals that men go on 48% more dates than women. - • Dating platforms report male-to-female gender ratios between 60:40 and 70:30, with female users exiting at high rates. - • Match Group and Bumble have recorded stalled subscriber growth since 2022, driving revenue growth primarily through price increases. Match Group executives have spent years finessing messaging around 'gender balance' and 'member experience quality', describing sophisticated AI matching and improved safety tools. Yet new research suggests the industry might be solving for the wrong problem entirely: men are going on 48% more dates than women, despite the near-universal narrative that male users get locked out of the market. The finding upends conventional wisdom that has dominated product roadmaps and investor presentations for the past five years. Everyone from Match to [Bumble](/news/bumble-lawsuit-over-preventable-data-breach) has calibrated features around the assumption that women are overwhelmed by attention whilst men struggle to convert matches into conversations. The data now indicates something more troubling: women aren't overwhelmed—they're withdrawing altogether. ![Person using dating app on smartphone](https://images.pexels.com/photos/6833569/pexels-photo-6833569.jpeg) Person using dating app on smartphone ## The paradox no product team expected The research, conducted by DatingNews.com in partnership with the Kinsey Institute, presents a genuine head-scratcher. Men have long complained—vocally, across Reddit threads and earnings call questions about 'match inequality'—that dating apps favour women. Swipe data has consistently shown men outnumber women on most platforms and send vastly more messages per match. ### Create a free account Unlock unlimited access and get the weekly briefing delivered to your inbox. Register free No spam. No password. We'll send a one-time link to confirm your email. But if men are at such a structural disadvantage in the matching economy, how are they converting to nearly 50% more actual dates? The study doesn't appear to disclose whether the 48% figure reflects mean or median activity, which matters enormously here. A small cohort of extremely active male daters—the 'super users' every platform depends on for engagement metrics—could be skewing the average upward. > If women are systematically pulling back from active dating whilst men persist at higher volumes, the quality gap between what each gender experiences will only widen. That creates a doom loop: worse experiences drive more women away, which intensifies male competition, which degrades interaction quality further. What the research does suggest, however, is that women are more likely to pull back from dating altogether rather than persist through poor experiences. That's the strategic problem. The platforms have been optimising for engagement when they should have been solving for sustained participation. ## Female disengagement versus male persistence Dating company executives have known for years that women churn at higher rates than men. Bumble's [Whitney Wolfe Herd](/news/whitney-wolfe-herd-back-bumble-ceo) referenced 'burnout' as a core challenge in the company's S-1 filing. Match has described its 'member experience' initiatives as partly aimed at reducing harassment and low-quality interactions that drive women off platforms. ![Woman looking frustrated at phone](https://images.pexels.com/photos/6833565/pexels-photo-6833565.jpeg) Woman looking frustrated at phone According to the research, men appear to persist through the match drought—sending more messages, lowering standards, expanding search radius, cycling through multiple apps. Women, by contrast, seem more willing to exit the market entirely when the experience doesn't meet a quality threshold. That aligns with years of qualitative reporting about safety concerns, low-effort messages, and a general dissatisfaction with the calibre of interactions women report receiving. From a product perspective, this creates asymmetric incentives. Men are sticky users even when frustrated. Women are not. That should reorient where platforms invest: retention mechanics for men matter less than experience quality for women. Yet most apps still optimise heavily for male engagement, because men generate the volume that drives revenue. The financial implications are straightforward. If female participation continues declining, the gender ratio worsens, which accelerates the doom loop. A further shift doesn't just damage experience quality. It threatens the core matching model. ## What operators should actually worry about The research points to a problem that goes beyond feature tweaks or AI optimisation. If women are withdrawing from active dating at higher rates, launching another matching algorithm won't solve it. Neither will video profiles or voice notes or any of the other 'product innovation' Bumble has cycled through in the past 18 months. > The platforms need to solve for why women leave, not why men stay. Safety tools are table stakes, but they don't address the core issue: most women report that the interactions they do have feel low-effort, generic, or misaligned with what they're looking for. That's a supply-side quality problem, not a safety problem. No amount of AI-assisted icebreakers will fix that if the underlying incentive structure rewards volume over relevance. ![Couple meeting for coffee date](https://images.pexels.com/photos/7341892/pexels-photo-7341892.jpeg) Couple meeting for coffee date There's also a selection effect at play. If the women who remain active on apps are those willing to tolerate lower interaction quality, and the women with higher standards exit entirely, platforms are left with a progressively less representative pool. That creates adverse selection on both sides: women who are less discerning, and men who can't meet the standards of the women who've already left. The data also suggests that dating apps might be measuring the wrong success metrics. Total messages sent, matches made, and daily active users all look healthy if men are grinding through profiles at high volume. But if those interactions aren't converting into sustained relationship formation—and if the users most likely to pay for premium features are the ones leaving—then the engagement metrics are masking a retention crisis. ## The trust crisis accelerates The broader context here is the trust crisis that's been building across the industry since 2022. Subscriber growth has stalled at Match and Bumble. Revenue per payer is up, but that's a function of price increases, not improved product-market fit. Female disengagement accelerates both problems: fewer potential matches reduce the value proposition for paying male users, whilst women have less incentive to pay if they're not actively participating. What's needed is [longitudinal data on participation rates by gender](https://www.forbes.com/health/dating/dating-statistics/), not just among current users but among people who've left the market entirely. The [48% figure tells us about behaviour among active daters](https://www.newsweek.com/dating-app-men-women-study-10848936). It doesn't tell us how many women have simply stopped trying—or whether [growing male pessimism about romantic prospects](https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/69071/1/1-in-4-men-believe-no-one-will-ever-fall-in-love-with-them-state-of-uk-men-study) signals a deeper crisis in how these platforms shape expectations on both sides. ## Key Takeaways - • Dating app operators must reorient product investment away from male volume drivers and toward female retention mechanics to protect platform ecosystems. - • Investors in Match Group and Bumble face underlying retention risks if traditional engagement metrics obscure declining female participation rates. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How many more dates do men go on than women? ### What is the gender ratio on dating apps? ### Why is subscriber growth stalling for Match Group and Bumble? Cite this article [Dating Apps](/tag/dating-apps) D [DII Data Team](/author/data-analytics) Data & Analytics Desk The DII Data Team maintains the publication's trackers, market data and analytical reference hubs for the online dating industry. [More articles by DII Data Team](/author/data-analytics) ### In this article - [The paradox no product team expected](#section-0-the-paradox-no-product-team-expected) - [Female disengagement versus male persistence](#section-1-female-disengagement-versus-male-persistence) - [What operators should actually worry about](#section-2-what-operators-should-actually-worry-about) - [The trust crisis accelerates](#section-3-the-trust-crisis-accelerates) ### Mentioned in This Article Companies [![Known logo](https://img.logo.dev/name/Known?token=pk_K6hdbPRcTQSnsRNEiZ-Ymg&size=64&format=png&fallback=monogram) Known Dating Platform ](/companies/known)[![Match Group logo](https://img.logo.dev/mtch.com?token=pk_K6hdbPRcTQSnsRNEiZ-Ymg&size=64&format=png&fallback=monogram) Match Group Dating Platform MTCH $31.42 ▼-1.20% ](/companies/match-group)[![Bumble logo](https://img.logo.dev/bumble.com?token=pk_K6hdbPRcTQSnsRNEiZ-Ymg&size=64&format=png&fallback=monogram) Bumble Dating Platform BMBL $4.87 ▲+3.40% ](/companies/bumble) People [![](https://wljexrfnabxcmtcyztnv.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/profile-images/b7c19751-ec26-4013-bdbb-33be27e30ed1.jpg)](/people/whitney-wolfe-herd) [Whitney Wolfe Herd Founder & CEO ](/people/whitney-wolfe-herd)[![Bumble logo](https://img.logo.dev/bumble.com?token=pk_K6hdbPRcTQSnsRNEiZ-Ymg&size=32&format=png&fallback=monogram)Bumble](/companies/bumble) ## Trending in Dating Tech 1. 1 [![Corporate executives analyzing financial spreadsheets during a cross-border dating app acquisition meeting.](https://images.pexels.com/photos/14970196/pexels-photo-14970196.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&w=96&h=96&fit=crop&fm=webp&q=50&dpr=1)](/news/hello-group-15-years-coffee-portfolio) [Hello Group Quietly Adds Coffee Meets Bagel. 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