I’m sure such women as this exist, who only want to date up, however I haven’t met any myself. If there are such women, most likely they are willing to date men at the least the same level as them. And although equality has improved for women, when it comes to work, the majority of the top jobs are still men. We’ve had no female presidents, a small fraction of successful ceos are women, the number of male politicians outnumber women. There is still a major disparity of women in engineering and tech. Women who are at least willing to accept men at their own level, will have plenty of men to chose from. Even if a woman is very successful, she bless she’s the president who will still have a lot of men more successful than her.
When I read articles about successful single women trying to find male partners, they do talk about their frustrations in dating. But everyone I have read makes the point that they would rather be single than date a man they don’t want. If some women chose to be hypergamous, and don’t find a man that will live up to their expectations, then they will remain single, and that’s fine. Then they have taken themselves out of the dating market and done everyone a favor, thereby hypergamy will ultimately limit its self.
I don’t think polygamy will work in this case, I think monogamy was made for men. With polygamy there becomes a scarcity of women, and a number of men are driven out of the community so that there’s less competition for partners.
Overall, while women have made great strides in the workforce, men still dominate the elite jobs and overall men make more than women.
Also, I do believe for every hypergamous woman, there is also the opposite, women who attracted to men less successful than them. They do exist, just as men who are attracted to less successful women exist. I’d say for the majority of women, it’s way more complex than a numbers/looks game.