I think Online dating has made their lives a lot easier.
Honestly though, being an unattractive woman is worse than a man IMO. Now, the bar to be considered (truly) unattractive as a woman is way lower than a man so there's way fewer of them, but that's also one of the reasons it's worse. Also, so much of a woman's value is given to them by default but it does rely on their looks being of a certain standard, whereas an ugly man can compensate to some extent & get some respect by being good at something (as most men have to).
I've seen examples of this. When travelling New Zealand, my friends & I did most of it by coach & everybody on the bus gets to know each other and hangs out, etc. I remember one girl travelling on her own was on the bus for a while (maybe a week) & she was just ugly. Not fat, just pretty unfortunate looking. It struck me one day that I couldn't recall ever seeing anybody ever speaking to her. Nobody was nasty, I never heard anything said behind her back, but it was just like she didnt exist.
Similarly at school, when you go to sixth form in the UK (ages16-18) the form rooms for registration between 1st and 2nd years merge. There was a girl in the year below in my form, & again, I dont recall ever seeing her speak to anyone in the form for a whole year. Outside in the common room she always hung with this 1 other friend who also seemed like a social outcast & I'm sure it must have been looks related.
Damn, didn't realise I'd written so much...