Techies are no longer sought after in Indian marriage market

Parents seeking to get their daughters married are no more interested in IT engineers. Earlier techies were a ‘prized catch’ in the marriage market, thanks to their job security, fat paychecks and potential to settle abroad.

Of late the sector is going through a lot of turbulence with job instability. Not just rampant layoffs, Trump’s strict policies on immigration has shut the door for future NRIs and most importantly automation would eat up a lot of jobs have affected the marital status of lot of budding techies.

"We have also simultaneously seen that the number of women looking for life partners in the US has been declining rapidly, especially since November," Gourav Rakshit, CEO of Shaadi.-com, one of India's biggest matrimonial websites told Economic Times.
Indian women are more likely to relocate after marriage, which is why prospective grooms have been hit harder by the change in perception about IT.
At Shaadi.com, about 7% of women are looking for prospective spouses in the US. The number has been on a steady decline because of a broader trend, Rakshit told ET. Opportunities in India have been growing consistently and women today are more hesitant to disrupt their careers and lives to settle abroad. "However, we have seen a sharper decline in November (11%) and February (15%)," he said.

Rohan Mathur, senior vice-president at Jeevansathi.com, told ET that US-based prospects, there's a marginal dip of about 2% in interest (for marriage) received in recent months. "But it's not a sharp drop as one might have expected considering the talk over IT job cuts.”