双语阅读：英半数女性宁要房子不要小孩.docVIP

双语阅读：英半数女性宁要房子不要小孩 2011年09月19日09:34中国日报我要评论(0) 字号：T|T Sarah Jessica Parker, left, and Pierce Brosnan in I Dont Know How She Does It, in which she plays a busy mother. A survey said women put off starting a family fearing they will lose their career and looks. A generation of young women have been putting off?starting a familybecause it will damage their lifestyle, career and looks, a survey shows. One in three childless women quizzed now say they dont ever want to become a mother while increasing numbers of thirty-somethings in stable relationships and with good jobs have different priorities. Almost half would rather get on the property ladder than have a baby while 28 percent would prefer a ā100,000 salary, according to a poll of 2,000 women. The Grazia magazine report commissioned to coincide with the release of Sarah Jessica Parkers latest film I Dont Know How She Does Ituncovered a whole new tribe dubbed the I Dont Know Why She Does It generation. The film portrays the life of a?high-flyingprofessional woman Kate Reddy, who also looks after two children in the evening and is happily married to an out-of-work architect. Childless women just arent willing to make the sacrifices they now see are necessary for motherhood with 44 percent feeling sorry for working mums struggling to have it all, the survey said. A quarter think working mothers always look exhausted and one in five say it looks so difficult it makes them?think twiceabout having children. Half of childless women over 30 look at stay-at-home mothers and think it will be difficult for them to get back on the career ladder and a fifth believe theyve lost their identity. Body issues are also a factor with three in ten worried about the effect pregnancy would have on their appearance. Almost a third think having a baby would make them less body confident while almost one in three mothers miss their pre-baby figure and feel judged by society thanks to coverage of glamorous celebrity mums. Four in ten childle