I doubt that girls are putting off dating/marriage so that they can go to college and/or get a job, it can and has been done simultaneously for several decades already. In fact, many Orthodox girls go to college or find a good job because they are realistic- they want to marry and support a kollel husband, and they are doing their hishtadlus towards that end. The 20/21 year old studying OT in Touro is not the cause of the shidduch crisis. Imagine how much worse it would be for older singles, and in fact any single over seminary age, if they just sat home with their lives on hold as they waited until they got married, maybe having a shidduch come up once every month or two.
Besides, if you hold from the age gap theory, if they are pushing off marriage until they get their degrees and good jobs (which I really don’t think they are) then they are narrowing the age gap and solving the shidduch crisis!
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