As a student I have odd hours.
Sometimes I go shopping for food in the middle of the day.
I see plenty of women who are not even close to skinny(every day, not just after the welfare checks are handed out) wandering down the isles with a couple kids in tow.
Some man is paying for them to spend a lesuirely day shoping at superstore.
Sometimes on my off days I decide to treat myself to a hot chocolate. I go down to the local star bucks and what do I find? A bunch of women in gap cloths, stocky (not fat, but not skinny), sipping lattes while they chat together, sproggen safely stowed in their child containment units.
Some man is paying for them to spend a lesuirely day chatting with friends at the local coffee house.
Both types of women are not sylphs. Both types of women manage to get some man to pay for their existance. (If you're fat you end up with a working class man, if you're stocky you end up upper middle class to rich and if you're thin you either end up married to a really rich man or you end up middle class. No idea why this is so consistant but if you ever go to a society luncheon or caberette, almost all the women are stocky.)
People forget the idea of compromise. A man might want cindy crawford but a cindy crawford is few and far between so he has to compromise with a woman he can get.
Further the success of a man isn't only predicated on his innate worth, it also seems to be related to the wife he chooses. Those stocky women are, quite often, more industrious, more even tempered, and more supportive then a lot of the smaller lasses, who have higher expectation of the men they're with and lower expectations of themselves. Which may be why they end up with a better preforming man. (I know this sounds callous, sorry.)
I'm afraid my observations are that men are still more desperate for women then women are for men.
Finally, women express less of a desire to get married immediately after divorce then men. They say they would prefer to be unmarried for a longer period of time then men. So it makes sense men get married (or try to get married) faster after divorce.