啃苹果的时候, 看见一则新闻, 颇有感触, 现部分引用:

Women in Shanghai prefer a happy family to a successful career, a recent survey has found.

The Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions asked 430 women educated to university level, including holders of bachelor, masters and PhD degrees, about their living situation and attitudes toward jobs, wages and future plans.Thirty percent of respondents said a happy family was their first ideal, while 24 percent said they wanted greater success at work.

It found the greatest source of anxiety for well-educated women who were married was the difficulty in choosing between children and a career, while the biggest headache for single women was the difficulty of finding a husband.

The experts said most Chinese men wanted a woman with a lower level of education, and such traditional thinking was making it difficult for well-educated women to find a husband.

看后, 感觉大部分中国人的观念还是比较传统的. 大部分中国女人, 还是希望结婚生子, 有个温馨的家庭; 大部分中国男人, 还是希望找个贤妻良母, 事业有成. 这些和学历背景基本无关, 无论是Master/PhD, 还是农民/工人. 因此, 不少成功职业女性会在职业颠峰退居为家庭主妇, willingly or unwillingly, 而许多男人则会先花个10年折腾出一番事业再娶个美丽贤惠的娇妻.

最悲愤的是新闻最后一句话(见上)... so the problem lies not only in women, but also in men, largely...

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/citylife/2008-03/12/content_6529124.htm