中国成功女性不于找丈夫.pptVIP

中国成功女性不急于找丈夫 Christine Yu is single, sophisticated and successful. A senior internal auditor with a large company, Yu spends her free time practicing English at a language club and dancing, often with a paid instructor. She does not spend her free time trying to find the right man. “I’m very picky, I think,” Yu said. At 29, Yu is part of a new generation of young urban Chinese women who say they have more choices than their mothers did when it comes to education, careers and, especially, marriage. “If I don’t love him, how can I have kids with him?” she asks. For centuries, Chinese women were expected to raise families and cater to their husbands, but that attitude is fading fast. In a survey by the Asian Womens Forum and the Womens Studies Center at Peking University, 45.3 percent of women said they did not think they should have to give up a career for a family life. Nearly three-quarters of Chinese women want to be economically independent, a survey last year by the Institute of Marriage and Family found. This year, in the largest survey ever conducted of Chinese gender perceptions, the All-China Women’s Federation found that a similar percentage said media depictions of women as subservient to men were a major obstacle. Sabrina Wei, 25, a self-described entrepreneur in Shanghai, is like many young Chinese women. She is in no hurry to settle down with a husband. “I always strive for the best, and I can wait,” she said. Big paycheck means less housework for married women The more money a married woman earns, the less housework she will do regardless of how much her spouse earns, according to a new study. Married women who made $40,000 or more a year spent nearly one hour less on housework per day than women who earned $10,000 or less, according to the findings based on data from the National Survey of Families and Households. Up to this point, people have thought that the important thing was how much money a woman makes compared to her husband. But the only thin