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70% of college women see marriage as priority

www.chinanews.cn 2005-03-03 13:18:56

Chinanews, Feb. 2 - Most female college students born in the 1980's would
put their families and marriages before their careers. Yesterday
afternoon, Geng Wenxiu, a professor of psychology at East China Normal
University published her latest statistics collected from undergraduates
in four universities in Shanghai who had taken the seminar "Women's
Development and Societal Harmony."
The statistics revealed that 68.2% of college women regarded marriage and
the love and care of their families as the most important sources of
support in their lives. Those more concerned about "ideals, beliefs and
the pursuit of a career" added up to 19.7%. 9.1% believed that money and
material wealth was a better source of support. 65.2% of those surveyed
said that one's entire life should be "a fifty-fifty split between career
and family," and only 37.3% would "give first priority to their career
and dedicate the remainder of their time and energy to saving their
marriage if a conflict arose". In terms of personality, 32.8% considered
themselves oriented towards marriage and family, while 35.8% saw
themselves as selfish and fun-loving. 25.4% of the female college
students interviewed said that they preferred to pursue a career.
Geng Wenxiu indicated that the "let women return to the home" phenomenon
was no longer a result of external pressure but an active choice of many
women with high levels of education. She said that college girls should
not be blamed for a turn towards a more traditional, family-oriented
life-style. These girls are part of a self-identified category, according
to the opinion of social psychologists.

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