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"Professional women are freezing their eggs due to a "dearth of educated men to marry", a US study has claimed.

"Yale University researchers suggested an "oversupply" of graduate women left them struggling to find a partner and "desperate" to preserve fertility. They said the "man deficit" was worse in countries where more women were going to university.

Not enough men available for women to date

The researchers interviewed 150 women who had frozen eggs, of whom 90% said they could not find a suitable partner".

"Extensive media coverage suggests that educational and career ambitions are the main determinants of professional women's fertility postponement, especially as they 'lean in' to their careers," she said.

"Rather, they were desperately preserving their fertility beyond the natural end of their reproductive lives, because they were single without partners to marry."

'Buying time'
Speaking at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Prof Inhorn thought there were "not enough graduates for them".

In the majority of cases the women, who were treated at eight IVF clinics in the US and Israel and interviewed between June 2014 to August 2016, said they could not find an educated man who was willing to commit to family life.

"Women lamented the 'missing men' in their lives, viewing egg freezing as a way to buy time while on the continuing search for a committed partner'.

One woman who froze her eggs in January 2014 recalls feeling "pitiful and sorry for myself".

The 39-year-old from London had been sure her then-boyfriend was "the one", adding: "I didn't have to think about whether I wanted children. I didn't not want them and I knew that he did want them."

When she realised the man she thought would father her children was not coming back, she says she was left "shocked".

"I don't think I realised that there was a swathe of us eligible alpha females who were outnumbering our male counterparts."