Ah, but you see, I have NEVER been in a relationship with a man more than a couple of years older than me in my life. Nor have I ever been interested in being in one. I don't find men older than me attractive. Nor do most women. I can think of one woman I know with daddy issues who dated some older men, but she married a man quite a bit younger than her.
I do look down on men who will only date much younger women. I find it creepy and gross.
Where are these studies that prove women like older men? I don't know any women who actually like older men, although it occasionally happens that two people get to know each other and fall in love despite an age gap. I guess I can understand that happening -- though not to me.
Most often, a younger woman with an older man was attracted to his money. You seldom see a poor older man with a much younger woman, and there's a reason for that.
It's no skin off my nose either way. I have a nearly perfect husband who is about my age.