Are you a typical careeer girl?You are well educated,ambitious,informed and engaged.All are seemingly good things,at least until you get married.
Many factors contribute to a stable mariage,including the marital status of your spouse’s parents(folks with divorced parents are significantly more likely to get divorced themselves),age at first marriage,race,religious bliefs and socio-economic status.And,of course,many working women are indeed happily and fruitfully married — it’s just that they are less likely to be so than nonworking women.And that ,statistically speaking,is the rub.
While everyone knows that marriage can be stressful,recent studies have found professional women are more likely to get divorced,more likely to cheat and less likely to have children.And if they do have kids,they are more likely to be unhappy about it.A recent study in Social Forces,a research journal,found that women even those with a “feminist” out look – are happier when their husband is the primary breadwinner.
Many independent Chinese women like to earn their own bread,even if their husbands are already bringing home the bacon.But a recent survey suggests that such women find more joy from relationships,rather than successful careers.
The 2007 Career Women’s Survival Reprt was released by Sun Culture Multimedia last month.About 73 percent of the 7,000 woment surveyed in Beijing,Shanghai and Guangzhou said they would choose survey also found that 77 percent define happiness as “enjoying a relationship.”But striking a balance between career and family can bring callenges to the woman’s career advancement.
Both physical and emotional difference can prevent some women from taking tough positions.But family life is often the main hurdle for Chinese career women.Despite thes callenges,however,some experts believe it’s reasonable for some women to want to be breadwinners.
Women should have the freedom to decide if they want to stay at home or work to support the family.Everyone has a different interpretation of what it means to find self-worth.Traditionally,we tend to regard the family as the cell unit of society.Some membrs have always been expected to make sacrifices for it.But,it really does’t matter who earns more.Economic independence and personal choice is essential for both sexes in the family.
