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Chinese women have been delaying wedlock over the past decade and the average age for a woman to marry is now 24, a research report has found.

80% of Female Postgraduates in Nanjing Want to Marry the Rich

The Nanjing Normal University recently carried out a poll among the female postgraduate students in the city in the hope of finding out their requirements for ideal husbands. In the poll, more than 80 percent of them list a good financial background as the most important criterion for them to choose their husbands, the Yangtze Evening News reported.

For Guangdong Women, Family Trumps Careers

For the women of Guangdong, it would seem that tradition is king where aspirations are concerned. Some 93.3 percent of the women polled in a recent survey said that having "a happy and harmonious family" was the most important factor in a woman's life. By contrast, only 1 percent rated "having a successful career" as the key to a fulfilling life.

Rural Women Left to Hold the Fort at Home

Old age is already showing on Hu Yuezhen's face. Now in her early 40s, she has more silver than black in her hair.

Shanghai Domestic Violence Problem Revealed

Close to one out of 10 families in Shanghai have domestic violence problems, despite Shanghai men's reputation of being henpecked, a survey has found.

Rural Women's Main Worry Is Children's Education

China's rural women worry mostly about their children's education, followed by their livelihood and health, according to a national survey conducted by the All-China Women's Federation.

Chinese View of Marriage: Romantic & Practical

According to an online survey conducted by China Youth Daily and Tencent, about 50 percent of the responders still believe in true love, while 51.6 percent of females and 58.8 percent of males think abundant material wealth is necessary for a happy marriage.

After 4 Years of Marriage Virgin Wife Granted Divorce

A local court in south China granted a divorce to a woman last Thursday who remained a virgin after four years of marriage.

Pregnant But Unmarried Woman Sparks Moral Debate

Criticized by some as a harlot but canonized by others as a charming expecting mother, a Chinese blogger is stirring a lot of on-line debate because she's not married.

Lawyer's Website Shelter for Mistresses

A Beijing lawyer thinks mistresses are not all to blame for extramarital affairs. He has set up a website to help them.

Course Turns Female Bosses into Counselors

How often do bosses care so much about their employees that they become counselors, helping them face everyday situations? Dai Hong, who owns the Longer Advertising Company in Shanghai, does exactly that.

The Mothers of Re-invention

Before China started its reforms and opened up to the outside world, many foreigners had the notion that Chinese women enjoyed unprecedented independence from men and high participation in the public sphere. This liberation for women, however, worked as a double-edged sword. Very often, it forced them to juggle jobs and families with great difficulty.

Family 'Still a Priority' for Career Women

Working women in Hong Kong still consider the family to be their top priority and maintain a good relationship with their spouses or partners despite their hectic schedule and increasing responsibilities.

HK Gov't Urged to Promote Family Harmony

The government should take the lead in creating a family-friendly working environment to encourage domestic harmony, members of an advisory committee of Hong Kong said yesterday.

Pets Taking the Place of Children in DINK Families

The concept of DINK (Double Income, No Kids) families are widely accepted in China, and pets have become the center and emotional bound in many DINK families, which are usually called DINK-pet families.

More Career Women Keep Marriages Secret

Shenzhen, home to 200,000 single women aged 28 years and above, is seeing a new trend of married women hiding their marital status to help their careers, a phenomenon experts warn could harm both marriages and social integrity.

Hire a Housemaid for Honeymoon

According to Shanghai Morning Post, "honeymoon housemaid" is prevailing now in Shanghai to provide all kinds of service especially for newly-weds.

Housewives Promote Home-Made Mooncakes

Shanghai housewives are striking back against profit-hungry mooncake manufacturers by calling on people to make their own.

Prisoner Not Barred from Marriage

Twelve years of separation couldn't change the mind of a woman determined to marry her boyfriend despite his life sentence in a prison in Northeast China's Jilin Province.

Shanghai Trains Marriage Counselors

China's economic hub Shanghai has trained its first group of marriage counselors. On Saturday 140 people obtained certificates for the new career, ready to offer professional consulting services on marriage and family life in the city.

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